Category: Festivals

• The Figjam Factor

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Friday, Mar. 16, 2018   BALI is home to many oddities. We refer in this instance to those found in the expatriate community. Readers will recall that someone by the name of Terry Brockhall chose to defame two former expatriates recently on…

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  March 16, 2018

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Festivals, Food, Indonesia, Tourism

  Bar-room Lawyers, Chris Osses, Expatriates, FIGJAM, Frederick Dillon, Fundraising, Ipong Wayan, Mt Agung, Pay-By-Views, Terry Brockhall, Uang Kecil

• Straight to the Point

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms   The Cage, Bali Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018   IT’S magic what you can do these days with a talking smart phone. The other day we had to drive into Denpasar – a strange bit of it with which we are unfamiliar – and it was…

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  February 18, 2018

  Australia, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Festivals, Health, Indonesia, Public Administration, Rabies, Ubud, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Volcanoes, Writing

  Australian politics, Barnaby Joyce, Ethics and Office, Health studies, Janet DeNeefe, Mt Agung

• Turd World

  HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 8, 2017   WALKING out of a restaurant without paying the RP3 million (around US$250) you owe is against the law anywhere. It’s foolish, among other things including selfish, dismissive of others’ rights, and a low act that reflects very poorly on the perpetrators. Mostly those who commit such acts…

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  November 27, 2017

  Australia, Bali, Books, Festivals, Travel, Ubud, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Volcanoes

  Bali Advertiser, Barnaby Joyce, Janet DeNeefe, Monte Monfore, Truman Capote

• A Dog’s Life

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali May 13, 2017   THERE was a revolting instance of animal cruelty in Denpasar this week, which thanks to quick-thinking and wonderfully caring local people swiftly swamped the social media, where it attracted an immediate chorus of shock and shame. The…

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  May 14, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Bureaucracy, Festivals, Fine Dining, Indonesia, Ubud, USA

  Animal cruelty laws, Dog meat, Dog thieves, Donald Chump, Janet DeNeefe, Locovare, pump priming, Ubud Food Festival, UWRF 2017, Yogyakarta hospital care

• A Spicy Date

  HECTOR’S DIARY in the Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2017   UBUD is the centre of much heritage and tradition in Bali. This remains its principal charm, which is offset only by its other role as a testing ground for the skills – or lack of these – of drivers of huge buses that service…

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  February 28, 2017

  Bali, Environment, Festivals, NGOs, Public Administration, Public Works, Random Thoughts, Sustainable tourism, Tourism, Ubud, Water resources

  Down Under, Fivelements, IDEP Foundation, La Niña, Men at Work, Navel gazing, Spicy dates, Water Rites

• Dystopian Delights

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Nov. 9, 2016   THERE were no visibly ruffled kebayas at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival session featuring American author Lionel Shriver on Oct. 29. No one loudly rattled their worry beads or furiously flounced out. This was in stark contrast to the…

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  November 8, 2016

  America, Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Books, Festivals, Indonesia, Lombok, Tourism, Ubud, Writing

  Belgium, Books, Censorship, Chocolates, Culture, Death squads, Dystopia, Election fatigue, Gay penalties, Gianyar, Gill Westaway, Ines Wynn, Kori resort Ubud, Lionel Shriver, Mad Max, Marcel De Rijk, Politics, Puri Mas Lombok, rabies, Richard Boughton, Robert Epstone, Sara Sanders, Solemen Indonesia, St Regis Doha, The Mandibles

• Head for the Hills, Gabblers

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Oct. 12, 2016   WELL, the Diary is ready for the feast. This will not be in Hotel California style. We’re not much into steely knives and we certainly don’t want to kill the beast. Not that what we’re talking about is a…

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  October 11, 2016

  Australia, Bali, Books, Festivals, Indonesia, Road Toll

  Elizabeth Travers, Geoffrey Gold, Jack Daniels, Lionel Shriver, Neu! Reekie!, Paul Grigson, Sami Shah, Solemen Indonesia, Tim Hodge, Un’s Restaurant, UWRF 2016

• Shibboleths Revealed

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Aug. 31. 2016 Expatria, the spreading collection of dots that peppers the map of Bali like kibbutzim, as if it were the beginnings of an overbearing expropriation, had an unpleasant frisson of ferment recently over the tragic death of a policeman in an…

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  August 30, 2016

  Australia, Bali, Books, Expatria, Festivals, Fine Dining, Indonesia, Ubud, Writing

  Appeals, Bali, Biblical floods, Candi Dasa, jade richardson, Janet DeNeefe, Jo Hocking, Ku De Ta, Made Wijaya, Murder charges, Perth, Quinoa, The Ark, UWRF 2016, Vincent’s, Wayan Sudarsa

• Blots on the Landscape

  HECTOR’S DIARY   His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Jul. 20, 2016   Where to start? We’ll leave aside (for the moment) certain segments of the bar scene where duty of care, which shouldn’t be an entirely foreign concept, is spelt WTF, and winks and nods at malfeasant bad behaviour, if…

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  July 20, 2016

  Art, Australia, Bali, Books, Environment, Festivals, Food, General Interest, History, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Ubud

  Adrian Vickers, Australia, Bali, Bar riskers, Dog racing, Made Wijaya, Marian Carroll, NSW Premier Mike Baird, Sand extraction, Sophie Digby, Tim Hannigan, Ubud

• Here’s a Tip

    Hector’s Bali Diary, Apr. 27, 2016  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   Now that the issue of destroying Benoa Bay so that rich people can get even richer is at the forefront of the public mind, and is the subject as it should be of robust dissention, it’s time to…

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  April 29, 2016

  Bali, Economic Development, Environment, EU, Festivals, Food, Foreign Investment, General Interest, Indonesia, Lombok, Rabies, Tourism, Ubud

  2016 Ubud Food Festival, Benoa Bay, Chinese bridesmaids, Chinese investment, European tourists, FAO, Fragrant Rice, Gerard Delhaes, Rabies control, Suwung