My grandmother-in-law, Ni Nengah Lipet Sampik was the most vocal in her good natured (?) disapproval of our lateness. There were lots of speeches, the most memorable from the Kepala Desa (Mayor) of Bugbug, who explained that there were many stories about the suffering of Balinese woman who had married western men and found disaster waiting for them in a foreign land.   He hoped that I would not be that sort of a husband.   So do I. Nengah and I had lots of things to keep us busy during the time left in Bali -- meeting relatives and friends took most of our time.   Commitment to family members is much stronger in Bali than in Australia, and it seemed we met, drank and ate with a huge number of people (can one woman be related to all these folk?).

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