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… →
Category Archives: Indonesia
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… →
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… →