Tag: Brisbane
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HECTOR’S DIARY, Bali Advertiser, May 1, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences You’ve Got to Have Sole We gate-crashed a good meeting recently at the immensely comfortable – for superannuated diarists it is also immensely unaffordable – Semara Luxury Villa Resort on the Ungasan cliffs. Well gate-crashed is perhaps too strong a term: Robert Epstone of…
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HECTOR’S DIARY, Bali Advertiser, Jan. 9, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences In the Pink Again There was a pleasant little soiree just before Christmas, at the plush new Marriott property The Stones at Legian, in favour of the worthwhile Bali Pink Ribbon cause. General manager Peter Brampton and his crew put on a great show for the…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 12, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences What a Stinker Sir Stamford Raffles is a footnote in history for having identified a swampy and malarial island at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula as the site of the future New Serenissima (Venice) nowadays known as Singapore. He is due that credit. He’s also…