Day 4 - Ubud Market

We started the day off with another beautiful breakfast with a view. We both had bagels (me with bacon and Roy with chicken). It was good but I had to take the guacamole & salsa off as it was very garlicky. The bread basket was as good as ever, I'm in love with their cinammon swirls with homemade papaya jam.

We settled into our routine of a few hours chill and sunbathe in our villa. We both started our jack reacher books which was cute. I have a feeling I might complete mine before Roy though!

At lunch time Roy had his cold lamb curry leftovers from last night's tea (ew) and I had some crisps and some snake fruit which wasn't very pleasant.

Then we got dressed and headed to the Ubud markets. It was bustling but the great thing is no one is hastling you to buy anything or trying to force you into the shops. Roy did some haggling and got me a pair of elephant trousers for £2.67 and a gorgeous dress for about £5. We also got 5 magnets and 10 flower hair clips for the clips for about £3. Things are so cheap here.

When walking round we noticed that the traffic had been stopped. Further up we saw why. There was a massive parade to give thanks to the temple. It was so great to see more of their culture. Balinese people are so spiritual and respectful. Even when you buy something from the market traders they say thank you, you give me good luck. Everyone is so polite it's lovely. The little girls were waving at all us westerners taking photos.

After lots of walking around we were ready for a drink so stopped at a bar next to ubud Palace for a happy hour BOGOF cocktail. We went for frozen coconut mojito. It looked so cool but tasted like vegetables. We were thirsty though so we drank it all and for £5 we couldn't complain.

Roy's WhatsApp had stopped working so he was fixated on that for a while and kept trying to find a shop to fix him. But unfortunately no luck.

It was my choice for tea so we headed back towards our hotel down to bebek bengal aka dirty duck. It's world famous for their crispy duck and we can confirm it lived up to it's reputation. First the setting was stunning, we're still constantly amazed by how unassuming a place can look from outside then you get in and there's koi fish ponds, mini waterfalls and huge statues, this time of breastfeeding monkey (bit weird but looked kinda cool). They had tables were you can get traditionally sat on cushions so we went for that table as it reminded Roy of Yemen.
We both ordered a bintang which is their local beer and they brought over some nuts. For starters we shared chicken wings and for mains Roy went for deep fried crispy duck with sweet chilli sauce and I went for duck fried rice which came with a fried egg & shrimp crackers. It was amazing. Some of the best duck I've ever had. Just a shame they didn't do pancakes and hoi sin sauce! We still can't get over the pricing here, to say this is one of the top rated restaurants in all of Ubud it only cost just over £20 for everything!

We ambled back to the villa where Roy finally found a shop that fixed his WhatsApp (while his not very happy wife stood outside for 15 mins like a spare part) so he was happy and they didn't charge him either. While I waited I got a Google alert saying 21.00 reminder put bins out, I was very confused until I then saw the bin truck ten mins later. It must be an alert for all those in ubud which is very cool and something that would be useful for many back in the UK! When we got back to the villa we had received a complimentary happy honeymoon cake which was a nice touch. Roy didn't fancy any of it so I demolished the whole thing in bed!
I then recorded Roy reading today's bedtime story given by the hotel so the girls could have it as their bedroom story too ❤️Okumaya devam et