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Medan to Ketambe: Into the Wild, Misty Jungle
The flight from Labuan Bajo was in a propellor-driven plane. We turned in a wide arc after leaving the runway, to look down on the town and the islands and reefs splodged throughout the coastal [...]
Lombok to Flores: Here be Dragons
Our boat departed from Bangsal in northwestern Lombok around 13:00. We were 23 passengers, mostly german, six spanish, two irish plus Maeve, one danish, one swiss, and me, plus four crew. When ordering the trip [...]
Lombok: Climbing to Dawn on Top of the World
A smooth twenty-minute water taxi ride landed us on the Gili's big neighbour island, Lombok. By horse-and-trap then taxi, we finally saw Indonesian life in the daylight, lurching through overtaking manoeuvres past rice paddies dappled [...]
The Gili Islands: Upgrading to a more Perfect Paradise
We staggered like refugees onto the beach at Gili Trawangan, the largest of the three tiny islands just off the northwest coast of Lombok. Dogs and motorised vehicles are banned on the islands and the [...]
Bali: Wish You Were Here
It was a Friday at the start of Autumn. Besides a few excited text messages between Maeve and I, it felt like any other Friday. We were working hard, me at my home desk, Maeve [...]
Office Lunacy
A transcript from several years ago, when I was working at a medium-sized media company in Aldershot. It's a rare piece of factual writing where I attempted simply to capture what had just happened, and [...]