Tagged: indonesia

All Dollars Are Not Created Equal

When it comes to travel money, there’s a general assumption that good old US greenbacks will work almost anywhere in the world, even beyond the...

Mmmm….. Pork!

Now, I do love pork. And, if pork’s your thing – or even if it isn’t normally – Balinese babi guling is a dish you...

Bali cremation: Men tend pyres with kerosene burners.

A Cremation in Bali

The three giant black bulls had been sitting in state outside Ubud Palace for a day or so, golden necklaces adorning their necks, their dangling...

view over rice fields, ubud, bali

A Very Little House

This is the view from our very little house in the rice fields in Ubud, Bali. We’ve taken it for a month, to study Indonesian...

Heaven and Hell on Wheels…

Bali. One of the most consistently beautiful places on the planet. With (outside the timelessly international package hell of Kuta) a culture that is beyond...

Hearts and Minds

We meet Cam and The Big O on a WWII amphibious landing craft in a coconut grove outside the island’s capital. They are surrounded by...

Wikimedia commons image of WWii japanese flag

The Last Soldier

In parts of Halmahera, they remember Teruo Nakamura as the good Japanese. You know. The one who didn’t rape and kill and pillage. Didn’t enslave...