Blessings and Borders I sat quietly in the dark on the kerb opposite our guesthouse. I could see the first hints of dawn in the sky, it wouldn’t be long before the monks were walking silently towards me. Everything was familiar, the same women were there setting up for the morning, laying out carpets and […]
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Back to the Garden – Theo’s blog Arriving in the village of Batu Katak to begin our “jungle trek” in the rainforest of Sumatra was like arriving to stay with a celebrity I’d been a fan of since childhood. I was full of anticipation for exotic sights and sounds, and dreaming of magical wildlife encounters,
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Angkor Wat Siem Reap was not like anywhere we’d been before. Angkor Wat is an international tourist destination attracting two million visitors each year and the city of Siem Reap has absorbed a wide variety of cultural influences as a result. The incredible food options, the style and price of accommodation, the transport choices around
Batu Katak We spent a long time on the deck of the KM Kelmud, making the most of the calmest seas we had experienced. I got up early each morning to watch the sunrise. Standing in the near darkness out on deck watching the slow, softly changing colours being reflected in the silky smooth seas.
550 million years, and counting…. Theo’s blog On a drive through Gosford, New South Wales, towards the end of our stay, I noticed I was no longer noticing Australia. I’d gotten used to the utes and double-trailered trucks driving at sober speeds past bungalows and verandahs and retail parks where well-fed sunscreened people in shorts
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Uluru My last eight hours on a bus in Australia – I have both a fondness and a mild dread of Greyhound buses now. They are hard on my back and each one has been a seriously loo-oong journey. That said, apart from one slightly suicidal driver on the journey from Melbourne to Sydney back
Deadly (…& Cuddly) Oz Australia’s reputation is that ‘danger is everywhere’, and in truth I expected to see something deadly every single day …and if it wasn’t terrifying, then we’d be going ‘awww it’s so cute’. I came to Oz with a bingo card full of animals I wanted to see – kangaroos, koalas, duck
The House Sit We arrived back at my sister’s house after our week away in the Blue Mountains, tired, but happy… two delighted dogs greeted us at the door, and after we unpacked, we headed out for our regular walk around the park, in a place that now felt like home. When we got back
Our Yellow Brick Road – Part Four Day 11 ‘Anyone up for walking to the port?!’ No one was up for walking to the port but we all did it anyway. The port was on the way to the Resistance Museum where we hoped to learn more of the detail of what had happened during
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Kelimutu One glance at mine and Rosa’s backs and it was obvious that it didn’t make any sense to go on a 10 hour bus journey the next day. I shuddered when I thought about what hoiking our rucksacks onto our backs would be like… Time to change the plan. We talked to Pepeng and