Sunday in Seminyak
We are almost at the end of our time in Bali — and, boy, will we miss it. So what better way to spend our...
Category: Indonesia
Happy Birthday! It's Briby Time!
As I set out to collect my spawn from the airport, on my birthday, I am feeling quietly smug about not having paid a single...
Two Dinners and Four Goodbyes
“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....
Is this the Ultimate Touron?
So I am sitting in the pizzeria which is my regular local base for “work”. Or, more accurately, that mixture of social media, gibbering quietly...
In Which I Lose A Child and Gain a Motorcycle
If there is one thing more disconcerting than being woken up while sleeping al fresco under a mosquito net by a chap who wants to...
Back to School!
Can You Take a Child out of School for a Year? I recently came across a parents group arguing against longterm family travel on the...
In Conversation
Her 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”...
The Sound of Silence
On 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...
Learning to Love Our Motorbike
It 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...
Mmmm….. Pork!
Now, I do love pork. And, if pork’s your thing – or even if it isn’t normally – Balinese babi guling is a dish you...