Frankly, I Wouldn’t Recommend Getting Covid
Over the last year or so, I’d begun to come to the conclusion that – perhaps as a result of having dengue twice – I...
Category: Mishaps
I Think We Just Hit Peak Bali
Our gardener comes from a long, long line of balian, or magical healers. He’s a lovely guy. We know him as Pak Kiko, or “Kiko’s...
My Teen Can Literally Sleep Through an Earthquake
Earthquakes, like venomous snakes and everything breaking all the time, are one of those Bali facts of life. As with snakes and broken objects, I...
Dengue Is Not My Bitch
Having been bar reviewing, on and off, since the late Jurassic, I rarely get hangovers. But the one in Singapore was a corker. The aching...
How Not to Be a Travel Writer, Episode 97
I should have known that ten days off-the-path eclipse-chasing in East Indonesia, followed by a night at home, two days on the Gilis learning to...
ALL OF THE THINGS ARE BROKEN, ALL OF THE TIME
In Bali, every seven months or so, according to one of the island’s two Hindu calendars, which, together, are so fantastically complicated that many Balinese...
So I Found a Cobra in My Bedroom
I’m normally fairly sanguine about snakes. Well, about as sanguine as a Briton can be. We don’t really have snakes in Britain, by which I...
Bali Stories: Winnie Part 2
By now, my voice is more than familiar to the woman at the vet’s. I dial in of a morning, not really expecting an update...
Bali Stories: Winnie (Part 1)
In Bali, one often acquires a pet without really thinking about it. In fact, once known in the neighbourhood as a soft touch, folk can...
Different for Girls
There comes a time in every woman’s life when you realise that travelling just IS different for girls. For me, this little epiphany happened en...