Dark side of Paradise

[leroy17]

I agree Bernie.

Some will dislike these comments but I have to say that the whole Corby case to me has had far to much attention and carry on. There must be plenty of Aussies around the world in different forms of detention for either rightly or wrongly committing an offence, yet do we repeatedly hear about any of these cases.

I have my own opinion about guilty/not guilty but I have to say the punishment fitting the crime seems a little off, from such a corrupt society. Consider the punishment for the Bali bombings which killed and severely injured many many people.

Anyway... back to Bali. Firstly I have to say that I have not been there and my comments are based on my other experiences. Over the past 12 years we have travelled the world quite a bit having been to about 47 different countries and obviously had many varied experiences. I remember the first holiday planning with my wifes high school friend (who runs a travel agency) and Bali came on the list as an affordable destination. We were strongly urged not to consider Bali in that basically it was a 3rd world sh!thole, and that there were plenty of nicer places in the world. So our first trip was to Singapore - Maldives - Singapore. This was for a little more cash than a Bali trip, but not as much as you would think.

Without getting into it, I have heard and read enough for me to have no interest to ever go to Bali, nor even encourage any family or friends to go there. During our travels we have met many other travellers and it's interesting when discussing places to and not to go that Bali comes up on the 'not to' list with many.

So if you want to get your Bintang on, go for it. However the world offers far better alternatives to this sh!thole.