First Impressions Bali/Seminyak/Kuta

Our first stop in Bali was Seminyak a really nice area full of stylish bars and trendy stores. A big thank you to my sister (Sara) that gave us as a wedding first two nights in this amazing hotel!

the above flowers smell incredible!!


Starting the day with a power breakfast! with some traditional fried rice!


It was a long trip to reach Bali :) a total of 31h! first in a Qantas flight from London to Singapore and after with Air Asia to capital of Bali, Denpasar and all the waiting.

Tip! if you need transport to your hotel from the airport, buy a voucher with a fix price for your trip until the hotel, otherwise you really get overcharged for such a small ride.

Walking around Seminyak we´ve noticed that there is a lot of places where people give tiny offerings to the gods, you see it as well in front of every single store or restaurant,


The next day we had to check out the vibrant Kuta! where all the surfers hangout,


I don´t think we ever saw such a huge amount of Billabong , Hurley, Quick Silver stores in the same area. Interesting statues we found along our way to Kuta,


Specially for all our Belgium friends!! If you happen to be in Kuta/Bali and you are home sick! look no further :) there is a traditional Belgium food restaurant called Mannekepis!


With has the added value of free wifi :).. talking about free wifi! is interesting to note that you can find it in pretty much every bar/restaurant in the big cities as they use it as a selling point for you to come and eat at their restaurant :). So it was worth it to check always if there was a wi-fi network in the restaurant and after asking for the password :)

This post is being powered by the BatuKali restaurant :) ehehhehe

In the meanwhile we have decided in our route for the next week:

Sanur (beach area) - Nusa Lembongan (small island) - Ubud (cultural capital) - Padang Bai (beach area) - Gilli Terawangan (Lombok island) - back to Padang Bai!

From there we are thinking to probably head to Amlapura where an impressive water palace is located! and after Lovina :)

What do you pack for one year traveling

Its not easy at all to pack for one year! the tendency is to stuff up the backpack until there is no more space!.. We bought smaller backpacks in order to avoid that tendency! we are going minimal and along the way we will buy what we are missing.

But we do have the essentials :) In order to minimize the risks of one of our bags getting lost in our plane trips we decided to pack half of Antonio´s and half of my clothes in each backpack. We hope not! but if one bag gets lost at least we have half our staff to survive :)

The ideal is even to only check in one bag and have the other one going with us in the plane! we will check tomorrow at Heathrow if that will be possible :)

Sooo! the essentials we have in our backpack are:

-Medicines: Imodium, Malarone, Paracetamol, Anti Mosquito cream etc!


-Clothes, and here we go basic... 2 pairs of pants each, a couple of t-shirts and a jacket,


-Electronic Gear: 2 cameras, video cam, laptop, external drive, usb pens, 2 cell phones, 2 mp3 players, all their corresponding cables! and very important power adapters!

Thank you Kris for the great tip of using the plastic bags with zippers to store all these gear!! :)

Finally the bags we are taking:


And tomorrow we leave Europe towards Asia!! first destination Indonesia (Bali) via Singapore!!



The beginning of a GLOBE JOURNEY!! starts NOW!!

Thank you Samsung!!

We would like to give a big thank you to Samsung our sponsor! that provides us with a st550 camera, Omnia i9810 mobile phone and a netbook ns310! for us to document our trip and continue blogging through this Globe Journey!


this post is already powered by Samsung Netbook NS310!!




What a wonderful day!

It seems such a cliche to say it.. but it is true! it was one of the happiest days of our lives!

Credits: André Teixeira, Brancoprata

Our little cake toppers :) made by Paulo's father and hand painted by Juana :) more wedding pictures to come soon :)

The W day is arriving!

Its incredible how fast the time is going by! we keep on running and doing a lot of pending tasks for the wedding... I don't think anyone ever said getting married was easy... Indeed it is a lot of work, flowers, decoration, wedding clothes, planning tables! etc etc and the list keeps going on and on!

Although we are a little bit stressed with the tasks we still have to do... We cannot wait for the day to arrive! 27 of August! here we go!



To put our wedding shoes on and walk down that aisle!