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...
Category: Places
Settling Down, Take Two
The first week of school passes mainly in a frenzy of house-hunting. That is to say: stabbing at the Facebookz like a starving lab-rat, visiting...
In Which We Find a School
The next school we see, Dyatmika, looks promising. It’s got a good mix of local and international students; the elementary level is taught in Indonesian...
Samabe: Really a Rather Splendid Hotel
En route to the second part of our jolly in South Bali, I am overcome with butler angst. The second hotel we are invited to...
In Which We Visit an All-Inclusive
Barely two weeks into our period of settling down, and I’m thoroughly in need of a holiday. So we decide to take up an offer...
Green School, Bali
“Don’t miss the healing circle,” says one friend, rather snidely. We’re off to inspect Green School, the extensively-PRed international school on Bali, with its award-winning...
Home Sweet Home? Ubud
New Year’s Day seems an appropriate time to head to Bali and start a new life – and, let’s face it, getting on a plane...
Our Big Australian Road Trip in Pictures
For the tightwad with a loose schedule, a relocation camper is the perfect way to travel Australia. This is the behemoth that brought us from...
Zac’s Last Travel Birthday
Zac was nine when we started travelling. He spent his tenth birthday in Brisbane, ice-skating with me and his dad. I didn’t take pictures of...
Decision Time
Only months after Mongolia, the death drop is Zac’s second near-death experience within a year. I am crystal-clear when I wake up in the morning...