Author: Theodora

May 6, 2011

Two Kutas and Three Gilis

“I wouldn’t go to Gili Trawangan,” says the guy who’s just showed up at our guesthouse. “It’s like Kuta in Bali. And you can’t get...

April 28, 2011

Today is Take Your Child To Work Day, so a bunch of lovely folk who travel with a wildly varying selection of spawn — from...

April 26, 2011

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,...

April 24, 2011

This post is now out of date. Please head on over to my other site for 21 of Ubud’s best restaurants, current as of March...

April 22, 2011

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,...

April 20, 2011

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,...

April 18, 2011

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...

April 16, 2011

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...

April 14, 2011

“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...

April 10, 2011

We are almost at the end of our time in Bali — and, boy, will we miss it. So what better way to spend our...