Tagged: Family

May 12, 2011

Across Sumbawa on a Bike

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...

April 28, 2011

Today is Take Your Child To Work Day, so a bunch of lovely folk who travel with a wildly varying selection of spawn — from...

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 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 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 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...

March 22, 2011

“Do you have homework tonight?” “Yes. It’s quite hard.” “Oh.” We are in our local pizzeria, for a change. The homework thing, after a year...

February 14, 2011

When the lovely Colin and Tracy asked me over appropriately, err, lubricating quantities of beer, to put together a piece on sex on the road,...