The Friday Photo: Our Mahakam River Boat
I felt like Madame Mao taking this photo, signalling from the bank to get the boat in what I hoped was an appropriately scenic position...
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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...
Photo Essay: Bau Nyale in Lombok, Indonesia
Once a year in Kuta, Lombok, Indonesia, the palolo worms that live in the reef come out to spawn, and locals celebrate with the Bau...
Different for Girls
There comes a time in every woman’s life when you realise that travelling just IS different for girls. For me, this little epiphany happened en...
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...