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The Eagle Has Flown
Posted on August 15, 2011 | 26 CommentsBustling around the room in his new black T-shirt and jeans, gathering clothes, piling belongings on his bed, Z looks — well, I can only say grown-up. His shoulders have...
The Sunday Six: Things to do in Bali with Kids
Posted on August 7, 2011 | 15 CommentsGo Waterbombing! Whether you live in Bali, or are spending your holidays in Bali, a trip to Waterbom is one of the best things to do with kids. There’s seventeen...
The Sunday Six: Places to Stay in Bali that Aren’t Kuta
Posted on July 31, 2011 | 16 CommentsBedugul Sitting by an open fire in the evening and picking your own strawberries in the morning is not what most people associate with Bali. Which is precisely why you...
The Sunday Six: Great Restaurants in Ubud, Bali
Posted on April 24, 2011 | 12 Comments1: Café Des Artistes Some of the best steaks in Indonesia and, arguably, South-East Asia, plus a pretty inside-outside garden setting make Des Artistes a great place for a (relative)...
I Get A Driving License!
Posted on April 14, 2011 | 15 Comments“When is it acceptable to leave the scene of an accident?” the question asks. “A) When you have been involved in a fatal accident and your life is in danger...
Sunday in Seminyak
Posted on April 10, 2011 | 14 CommentsWe are almost at the end of our time in Bali — and, boy, will we miss it. So what better way to spend our last Sunday than on the...
Happy Birthday! It’s Briby Time!
Posted on April 9, 2011 | 16 CommentsAs I set out to collect my spawn from the airport, on my birthday, I am feeling quietly smug about not having paid a single bribe, in three months in...
Two Dinners and Four Goodbyes
Posted on April 3, 2011 | 16 Comments“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. He has a ticket.” I...
Is this the Ultimate Touron?
Posted on March 30, 2011 | 31 CommentsSo I am sitting in the pizzeria which is my regular local base for “work”. Or, more accurately, that mixture of social media, gibbering quietly at the parlous wifi and...
In Which I Lose A Child and Gain a Motorcycle
Posted on March 27, 2011 | 15 CommentsIf there is one thing more disconcerting than being woken up while sleeping al fresco under a mosquito net by a chap who wants to exchange motorbikes, it’s being woken...
Back to School!
Posted on March 12, 2011 | 24 CommentsCan You Take a Child out of School for a Year? I recently came across a parents group arguing against longterm family travel on the grounds that “many children will...
In Conversation
Posted on March 8, 2011 | 10 CommentsHer voice catches me first. It’s actressy, well-honed, modulated, and, my lord, it carries. It’s like Princess Diana in her “three people in this marriage” era, only the accent’s East...
The Sound of Silence
Posted on March 6, 2011 | 6 CommentsOn Saturday, town was so quiet you could literally hear the silence. Not the usual raucous night-time non-quiet, the squawking yabber of geckos, the surprising baritone of tiny frogs. But...
Learning to Love Our Motorbike
Posted on March 3, 2011 | 7 CommentsIt didn’t take sharing a road with the Bali Merzy Motorcycle Club, arguably the best-behaved bikers on the planet, to teach me that there’s nothing rock ‘n’ roll about biking...
Mmmm….. Pork!
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 14 CommentsNow, I do love pork. And, if pork’s your thing – or even if it isn’t normally – Balinese babi guling is a dish you have to try. What is...
Temple Monkeys: The Devil’s Work
Posted on February 20, 2011 | 30 CommentsTo anyone with an evil sense of humour, hanging out at a temple with monkeys is a guaranteed source of entertainment. Gasp as a tourist buys bananas, hands one in...
From the Bowels of the Beast: The World’s Most Expensive Coffee
Posted on February 18, 2011 | 39 CommentsEver heard of kopi luwak? It’s the world’s most expensive coffee. Because It Comes From the Bowels of the Beast. Yep. Kopi luwak is processed through the bowels — yes,...
A Cremation in Bali
Posted on February 15, 2011 | 37 CommentsThe three giant black bulls had been sitting in state outside Ubud Palace for a day or so, golden necklaces adorning their necks, their dangling balls covered in gilded hair...
A Walk in the Rice Fields
Posted on February 3, 2011 | 10 CommentsWhen she was a little girl, Su’s father built her a little tower on stilts in the rice paddies. Not to play houses — unusually for a Balinese woman in...
A Very Little House
Posted on January 21, 2011 | 23 CommentsThis is the view from our very little house in the rice fields in Ubud, Bali. We’ve taken it for a month, to study Indonesian formally before we take our...
