Category: Indonesia

May 15, 2011

Visas – A Horror Story

Now, I’m normally quite cautious about visas. I apply in the right town of the right country for them to be delivered cost-effectively and easily;...

May 12, 2011

After our bad break with the surfing, Z and I hunker down in our sterile boudoir to discuss what to do about Sumbawa, given we...

May 10, 2011

The surf camp has a locker room air to it. Bunk bed dorms sit off a lino-clad lounge with a grubby floral sofa, where one...

May 6, 2011

“I wouldn’t go to Gili Trawangan,” says the guy who’s just showed up at our guesthouse. “It’s like Kuta in Bali. And you can’t get...

April 24, 2011

This post is now out of date. Please head on over to my other site for 21 of Ubud’s best restaurants, current as of March...

April 22, 2011

In Magic Lounge, the drinking den where we sprawl on orange sofas and use their satellite internet after a day on the beaches of Kuta,...

April 20, 2011

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...