The Next Road on this Journey called Life (warning: another marathon bloggy) At Christmas time I was lucky enough to go to England to spend it with my amazing daughter,… [Continue Reading]
Tag: Gili Meno
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]
Roughing it
Hey friends 😊 It’s been a while since I posted anything – been preoccupied for the last few months doing a couple of short online writing courses. Very time consuming… [Continue Reading]
Gili Meno-pause
This one’s for the women out there. And of course, also for you men that care about women. To start with, a travel warning for women coming to Indonesia. Do… [Continue Reading]
The little things – a simple life
Ah, the little THINGS SomeThing I said often in a couple of earlier chapters in my life was: “I could quite easily live in a tent!”. If it meant being… [Continue Reading]
The importance of vaccination – goodbye Big Ears
Nine lives? Not if you don’t vaccinate! I intended to write a post one day soon about our growing family of wild island cats 😺. It was to be a happy… [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]
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]