Another day, another boatload of excited but tired passengers from Bali arrive on the island. The transfer boat pulls up alongside the floating jetty and the newcomers stand up to… [Continue Reading]
Category: Coronavirus
Changing the world one pony, and child, at a time
It’s hard to teach old dogs new tricks, right? Even more so if there’s big odds stacked against you. Odds like culture, religion, superstition, tradition, poor education and poverty. Horses… [Continue Reading]
Numbers
Today 15 thousand people – and counting – became so hungry they starved and died. Today a thousand people – and counting – simply got sick from unclean water… [Continue Reading]
fleeting
While the men sauntered home or rode rickety bikes from the maghrib prayers at the mosque around the corner, and on the mainland teenagers rode to a lookout, lit cigarettes… [Continue Reading]
A tiny tourist island… with no tourists
Gili Meno, the tropical island that’s been my home for the last five years, is tiny. I often walk around the whole island, barefoot-in-the-sand-at-sunset, and my phone shows me it’s… [Continue Reading]
Dodgy Dudes (part 4)
If you saw a wallet lying on the street, you’d pick it up, yeah? And, when you checked the cards inside and found the identity of the owner, you’d do… [Continue Reading]
TIME OUT
We didn’t really need the virus to slam its huge sinister foot on the world’s brake pedal, making the world skid and slide to a slower pace, to know that… [Continue Reading]
When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking (Coronavirus blog-story #2)
“I told you something like this would happen!” Ayu whispered to her colleagues. One of her friends shushed her. It wasn’t in their culture to question or complain or even… [Continue Reading]
This Ain’t No Walk In The Park (Coronavirus blog-story #1)
Dylan stomped his feet and wriggled so much that Sharon took twice as long as normal to put his sandals on. “Wait up little man, please stop moving,” she pleaded…. [Continue Reading]