Bottled water at KLIA2
Like most budget travellers we normally buy bottled water to take on flights, but when it comes to buying water at KLIA2 there’s a problem. You can’t buy bottled water More… →
Author Archives: Mrs Vagabond
Getting an Indian tourist visa in Bangkok
Like many long term travellers, we had been planning to get an Indian tourist visa in Bangkok – at least for 3 months if we couldn’t score a 6-month one. More… →
10 good and bad things about Australia
Things I’ll miss about Australia (in no particular order):- 1) Western standard supermarkets that sell a full range of stuff, including cheats like ready meals. 2) Cheap and readily available More… →
Darwin
It was dark by the time we touched down in Darwin, so we saw nothing of Australia on our approach. We knew from TV programmes that Australia has very strict More… →
Reset, Play
Even in a taxi and after dark, you know you’re in Bali. The flute and gamelan music on the stereo with its distinctive jaunty tempo (so different from the stately More… →
Lessons learned from our Bali burglary
We were burgled while staying in a rented cottage just outside Ubud in Bali. We lost all our laptops and tablets, a substantial amount of cash, our driving licences and More… →
Putting it all back together
We were really lucky with our choice of guesthouse in Sanur. The Jukung was small but our room was bright and immaculate, and equipped with a safe, kettle, fridge, TV More… →
Robbed
“Ohhh shit”. Mr V was ahead of me and saw it first: I followed his gaze through the window, and could see that the patio door stood open. For a More… →
Monkey trouble
I don’t claim to be any kind of expert on animal behaviour, but this was our experience of living in a monkey infested area just outside Ubud in Bali. First off More… →
Nyuh Kuning – the Bali dream
The owner of our rental cottage had assured us that the water problem was just a transient phenomenon that happened if the taps were run too much in the dry More… →