Day 68 (Bandar Lampung)

To be honest there isn't a whole lot to report from today. It was a longer drive day than expected – I thought there was about 30 minutes left but heard a vicious rumour about two or three hours so put the question to the front of the bus..it was confirmed. I wanted to die! Really feeling the strain of being confined on a bus for so many hours these days, so I'm very excited about flying ahead to Bali.

The drama of the day was when I roused from sleep to have Una standing over me looking very upset..I hadn't a clue what was going on. It turns out that she'd managed to delete every single photo from her memory card – we're not talking a couple of pictures here, we're talking thousands! Every photo from the day we left Dublin...the mood was blue :( The only consolation was that I had a backup of everything up until we left Koh Samui, so she's missing from Hat Yai onwards..the days I was very camera shy for once, so we don't have a whole lot to share from those days...I'm working on piecing it together from what I have and taking copies of Annie's (she takes so many pictures that we're bound to bridge the gap :) thanks Annie).

We eventually arrived over two hours late, tired and cranky (or at least I was). Having eaten most of our snacks we needed to restock for lunch so went in search of a supermarket. Beside it we found a restaurant serving steak, and a Pizza Hut. I've been craving steak for aaages...but we couldn't understand the menu, and the waitresses didn't have an English menu, or any English to help us translate it. Fearing that we'd get mushroom stuffed steaks in mushroom sauce, and not feeling adventurous enough to order mystery dishes since we were hungry enough to chew our own arms off at that point we went to Pizza Hut...AGAIN! I had Lasange..AGAIN! I tried to have a semi-healthy option by getting salad too, but then I had too much food and couldn't finish it all. As an aside, the vanilla milkshakes in Indonesian Pizza Huts are the nicest I've ever tasted...so, so, so, so good!!