Remember the Beach Boys’ song, “Wouldn’t it be Nice If…”? All Aussies know it really well because it became a ditty on a famous tv ad. It’s the soundtrack to… [Continue Reading]
Category: things Indonesian
Rubbish!!
Sadly not everything about ‘my’ beautiful island is idyllic. This time of year it gets pretty hot and humid, and all year round there’s plagues of pesky ants, there’s a… [Continue Reading]
Mind your Ps & Fs
Here’s a bit of a lighthearted (I hope!) read about Indonesia… The Indonesian language is actually not the first language for Indonesian people. Their native tongue will be Balinese, or… [Continue Reading]
Childhood freedoms
Forty years ago. One October, when I was six, my family left Holland and arrived in Australia, a land of salty air and big skies, plenty of space and warm… [Continue Reading]
Ramadan, and the ironies of life
It’s Ramadan time and the mosque’s speaker systems have been belting out the calls to prayer louder and more often than normal. Last year I was in Australia through Ramadan… [Continue Reading]
He sells sea shells by the sea shore
Last weekend Made and I went on a Robinson Crusoe adventure to visit some quieter less inhabited small islands off the south-west coast of Lombok. They are known as “The… [Continue Reading]
Journey recap…to be continued
A year – or almost all of a year – spent living in Indonesia. Would you believe it’s 12 months ago that I first arrived in Indonesia? In the midst… [Continue Reading]
A tale of two ceremonies
Last week was a special Hindu ceremony day – Ćivaratri or Shevaratri – celebrated by Hindu people throughout Bali and in Lombok too. I had been told that it was… [Continue Reading]
Living in a muslim country
So I have spent much of this year on Gili Meno, which is a Muslim island, off the coast of Lombok, the Muslim mainland. Lombok is known by the locals… [Continue Reading]
Jalan jalan
Sharing my afternoon in Lombok – long post to read, should you choose to, at your leisure 🙂. Yesterday we went to play bingo – which is fun and culturally fascinating… [Continue Reading]