General Interest
-
Abroad Blog of the Week: Lottie Nevin
Originally posted on Global From Home: If you haven’t already subscribed to this Abroad Blog of the Week, you’ll want to. I came across Lottie Nevin when I first started blogging about six months ago. I was hooked by Lottie’s blunt honesty but humorous take on the difficulties of being a Brit new to Jakarta.… Continue reading
-
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 14, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bag brigade: Part of the rubbish cull at the inaugural clean-up in Tundun Penyu, Ungasan (see DIY Clean-Up, below). Water of Half-Life It has not yet been raining on the Bukit this official wet season, in any appreciable way at least, up to deadline time for this… Continue reading
-
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 31, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences It’s a Scream Anyone who travels by plane – and who doesn’t these days – would be sure to get a giggle out of Indonesia AirAsia’s pre-takeoff briefing for passengers on the Bali-Perth run. The Diary had a sample on the latest SEB flit to the… Continue reading
-
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 17, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali be Buggered The ruination of Bali at the hands of mass tourism and its high-end glitterati offshoot is a topic that periodically exercises many minds. Those of us who live here notice it chiefly from the strains it imposes on utterly inadequate public infrastructure. But… Continue reading
-
The Goddess of Cauliflower Soup
Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: A recipe for Disaster. Oh, this was a great blog! An incredible, witty, passionate and inspirational blog. It was My Best Blog Ever. But I accidentally deleted the whole thing fooling around on WordPress and it is lost forever. Oh, woe! I have been grieving for three solid hours over the… Continue reading
-
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 3, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Keep on Rolling It was sad to hear of the death of Andrew Clark, late in September. We’d never met, which was a pity, but his skills in teaching English and his efforts to ensure English-language messages were rendered correctly in Bali – a Sisyphean… Continue reading
-
Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: I’ve always had this intuitive feeling that ‘going back’ is a path fraught with disappointment, a sure way to lance the boil of regret that grows quietly on the under-side of nostalgia. In love, in career and travel, ‘going back’ risks curdling all that warm milky romance that time so gently… Continue reading
-
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sept. 19, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Tugu Tripping We had a pleasant outing recently, to Hotel Tugu at Batu Bolong where the Rotary Club of Canggu meets and which, on that occasion, was inducting SoleMan Robert Epstone, a fugitive from Seminyak, as a member. It was a horrendous drive to get there… Continue reading
-
I like the thought of hapless heroes, though I wouldn’t say “been there, done that” 🙂 Continue reading
8º of latitude 