Gili Trawangan

We got to Gili Trawangan and immediately liked it. It's a really pretty island and it's the perfect mix of tourists and realxed locals.  After we found a hostel, we went for a walk around the island. It took about 90 minutes to 2 hours and for a lot of the walk we were wading through the water along the beach. The scenery was just absolutely amazing, out of this world beautiful and both Colin and I said that it's what we imagine a proper island paradise to look like (and also what we thought Thailand would be more like). There are no cars or mopeds on the island, which makes a nice change, and the only transport they have apart from the boats are horse-and-cart.
Once we'd made our way all around the island it was really hot, so we went for a swim on the main beach. It was fantastic, the water was perfect, although a bit scary as it was so clear you could see everything at the bottom and there was a bit where it got really deep, it just drops all of a sudden.
In the afternoon it got a bit overcast and looked like it might rain, but we'd already spotted a bar showing the Australian Open tennis final. We went in and watched Andy Murray  lose a final yet again, but this time we were on a beach in Bali watching the sunset as opposed to last year when we watched it early morning in a cold flat in Kilburn.
The next day Colin felt really unwell and he spent the day in bed while I played nurse. I did go out a few times to have a quick look in the shops, but I was good and didn't buy anything despite having control of the money wallet for once. After a day of tablets and relaxing to help Colin recover, he felt a bit better and we caught the speedboat back to Bali.