We Stay With The Sisters
“Let me explain the rules,” says the young, smiley nun, jiggling the world’s most-indulged baby who’s balanced on her shoulder. “We close the gates at...
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The Sunday Six: Places to Ride A Submarine
You don’t have to be in the navy to ride a submarine any more. Here’s six places where you can do just that as a...
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;...
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...
Travels with a Ten Year Old
Today is Take Your Child To Work Day, so a bunch of lovely folk who travel with a wildly varying selection of spawn — from...
F*ck It. I’m A Tourist.
Tourist or traveller? It’s a question as old as the first ever travel books. But I don’t like the word “traveller”. It smells of one-upmanship,...
A Tough Question
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,...
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,...
First Leg. Second Thoughts?
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...
Our Next Intrepid Adventure: To Papua on a Motorbike
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...