The Island of Komodo We woke up painfully early that morning, we had to be on the boat by 6am – the boat that was going to take us on a tour of Komodo and some of the sights on the surrounding islands. It was a small but sturdy thing, comfortably fitting us and the […]
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It’s all gone south – Theo’s blog It felt romantic, as it always does to me, heading out to sea from the Malaysian Port of Batam. After two and a half months travel, we’d finally stepped off the land mass that had Amsterdam at one end and us now at the other. I felt elated
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‘There be Dragons!’ We walked off the boat into the twilight, unexpectedly early. The feeling of walking on solid ground reassuring, if a little weird at first, as we made our way to our guest house. Labuan Bajo felt like an easy place to be. The main street was wide and the whole place had
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Green Desserts – Theo’s Blog One of the really interesting things about travelling through the world at ground level is seeing the land and the people change through gradual over-lapping distinctions. When you cross a man-made border there’s still elements of the previous place and people in the new place and people, and by the
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Where the fish fly… Our 47 hour ferry from Bali to Labuan Bajo left at 9.00 p.m. which gave us the chance to have a lazy morning and get Theo a straw hat, and a shirt for my sisters wedding. We had a sweet moment with the shirt seller – Theo and he had spoken
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Bali Burning – Beauty and the Beast The overnight train to Ketapang in the far East of Java was a mere seven hours, but we were a bit ragged after the first eleven earlier in the day, and not having anywhere to lie down is hard (in theory we already know that but we keep
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In the Kingdom of Siam – Theo’s blog At exactly 8am, as we hoick our baggage into the homely tile and timber concourse of Udon Thani Station, all the Thai people around us – guards and porters, vendors and cabbies, coffee-clutching business travellers, school kids, blue-haired goth teens and peasant family groups – stop and
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Jakarta Arriving in Jakarta was intense. Waiting in the hold for the gates of the boat to open I realised that most of the passengers had been in communal sleeping areas with bunk beds in rows, what had that been like? It was hot and noisy now – but kind of friendly too…Theo was eyeing
The Great Big Southeast Asia Blog – by Rosa Laos was … tropical. I mean, I didn’t know what I expected, but honestly even from a tropical place, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so stereotypically tropical. The earth was red, and there was an overwhelming abundance of green wherever you looked. Strange and
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We’re on a boat to somewhere… We arrived at the border pa town of Su Ngai Kolok (such a fun name to say out loud) just as the sun was beginning to flex its muscles. We resisted the urge to get on a motorbike taxi…we reckoned we could have sold footage of us flying backwards
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