So I Found a Cobra in My Bedroom
I’m normally fairly sanguine about snakes. Well, about as sanguine as a Briton can be. We don’t really have snakes in Britain, by which I...
Category: Bali
On Hospitals in Indonesia
On Tuesday, Zac had surgery – to finally remove the metal plate installed at huge expense after our helicopter evac from Mongolia, where he’d broken...
Bali Stories: Winnie Part 2
By now, my voice is more than familiar to the woman at the vet’s. I dial in of a morning, not really expecting an update...
Bali Stories: Winnie (Part 1)
In Bali, one often acquires a pet without really thinking about it. In fact, once known in the neighbourhood as a soft touch, folk can...
The Blog Posts I Didn’t Write in 2014
Ah, 2014! A corker of a year. We’ve settled down in Bali, got ourselves more or less sorted out, done lots of interesting travel, entertained...
Settling Down, Take Two
The first week of school passes mainly in a frenzy of house-hunting. That is to say: stabbing at the Facebookz like a starving lab-rat, visiting...
In Which We Find a School
The next school we see, Dyatmika, looks promising. It’s got a good mix of local and international students; the elementary level is taught in Indonesian...
Samabe: Really a Rather Splendid Hotel
En route to the second part of our jolly in South Bali, I am overcome with butler angst. The second hotel we are invited to...
In Which We Visit an All-Inclusive
Barely two weeks into our period of settling down, and I’m thoroughly in need of a holiday. So we decide to take up an offer...
Green School, Bali
“Don’t miss the healing circle,” says one friend, rather snidely. We’re off to inspect Green School, the extensively-PRed international school on Bali, with its award-winning...