Another day of chillaxing and doing very little. We take a rickshaw across the village to The Green Garden for lunch. This restaurant, recommended in Lonely Planet, is neither green nor a garden or ‘in a garden setting’ as described. Not the first time that we’ve found the latest edition of Lonely Planet’s travel guide to Indonesia to be unreliable and out of date. Things in Pandangaran seem to have changed quite significantly since it was written and places that were operating here two or three years ago are either no longer open or are much changed. At times the descriptions of places are so way off the mark we wonder how long ago they were visited by the authors.
We meander back to the losmen along the quiet main street with its occasional shops, looping back via the southern end of the beach. The village seems to get quieter and quieter as the days go by. A dip in the pool which we have all to ourselves (even the losmen appears deserted) in this glorious garden setting, with the tinkling of fountains and the rustle of a breeze through the palm trees is a perfect way round off the afternoon.
Postcript: The payment from Amex Travel Insurance for Andy’s hospital stay has, at last, been received bringing to a close and eight month saga!