Travel
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Degrees of Idiocy
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare THE CAGE Bali Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 Degrees of Idiocy THE President of the Republic, Joko Widodo, familiarised here in the Indonesian way as Jokowi, has just visited Bali. Miraculously, the beaches appeared clear of the middens of muck that despoil them year round, Continue reading
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Living with Vulcan
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 11, 2017 ONCE upon a time, the activity of a volcano in a distant domestic backyard from which one is temporarily absent would have been something relayed at intervals by news reports, or not at all. Its inactivity ahead of anticipated action would have been even harder to detect Continue reading
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Messing About in Boats
HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other non-religious fare Bali, Jan. 4, 2017 WE have a lovely friend, a former media colleague who goes by the pen name of The Global Goddess. She has a tough life, poor thing. She’s forever flitting off from Brisbane, her home city, to go to distant places Continue reading
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