Tagged: motorbikes

A Tight Corner

Eating cold fried eggs and soggy white bread in the convent, under the scrutiny of a spreadeagled plastic Christ and an increasingly baleful Pope, Z...

First Leg. Second Thoughts?

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...

pantai putih, the white sand beach near bug-bug in bali, looking, frankly, greyish.

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...

view over rice fields, ubud, bali

A Very Little House

This 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...

Heaven and Hell on Wheels…

Bali. One of the most consistently beautiful places on the planet. With (outside the timelessly international package hell of Kuta) a culture that is beyond...