Category: Places

April 20, 2011

We Learn to Surf…

We have come to Kuta, in the south of Lombok, to learn to surf. And the beach, Selong Belanak, 20km or so west of Kuta,...

April 18, 2011

Struggling to get off the ferry, I begin to wonder whether my wizard wheeze, to ride a motorbike through Indonesia to Papua with my ten-year-old...

April 16, 2011

We have been intending to get to Papua for roughly seven years, ever since Z and I first started talking about travelling together, around the...

April 14, 2011

“When is it acceptable to leave the scene of an accident?” the question asks. “A) When you have been involved in a fatal accident and...

April 10, 2011

We are almost at the end of our time in Bali — and, boy, will we miss it. So what better way to spend our...

April 9, 2011

As I set out to collect my spawn from the airport, on my birthday, I am feeling quietly smug about not having paid a single...

April 3, 2011

“You need a ticket to come in,” says the briby man at Denpasar airport. “I don’t have a ticket,” I say. “My son is flying....

March 30, 2011

So I am sitting in the pizzeria which is my regular local base for “work”. Or, more accurately, that mixture of social media, gibbering quietly...

March 29, 2011

Handcarved from bamboo, umbrella frames create an abstract pattern of light and shade in Bo Sang, near Chiang Mai, Thailand.

March 27, 2011

If there is one thing more disconcerting than being woken up while sleeping al fresco under a mosquito net by a chap who wants to...