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… →
In Ubud
We planned to head for Ubud when we got back to Bali. We’d only spent 3 days there on our first visit but liked it (in spite of the traffic More… →
A salutary snorkeling story
Our original plan had been to travel east from Labuan Bajo by chartered taxi but it appeared that prices had shot up, and it would cost almost twice what we More… →
There be dragons
A trip to see Komodo dragons on Rinca Unless you shell out an enormous sum for a speedboat, it’s really not feasible to visit Komodo as a day trip from More… →
Labuan Bajo life
We knew that our guesthouse wouldn’t be the best we’d experienced – tourist numbers in Labuan Bajo have grown faster than the accommodation supply, so it’s very overpriced. Our room More… →
A flying visit to Flores
Even though it’s the only town at the western end of Flores and a major ferry port, you can tell as soon as you arrive in Labuan Bajo that it’s More… →
Seminyak stopover
Our flight from Bangkok to Bali had been bought on a special deal that meant we got seats with extra legroom, and since all the other seats around were empty More… →
Talad Noi – a different side of Bangkok
From Taiwan we flew back to Bangkok, for the 3rd time this year, but this time we had an apartment booked through Airbnb. The owner was abroad but his friend More… →
Farewell Taiwan
I had hoped to visit Yangmingshan, a mountainous national park just north of Taipei, but our last full day was dull and humid with low, threatening clouds – we’d probably More… →