This week I’m looking back at my trip to Indonesia in July and of the sunset sessions looking out towards Komodo island. There really is something evocative about catching a shot of an active volcano. It’s worth remembering that there…
A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
Tropical island holidays have never really tempted me. When I daydream of escaping my day to day routine, my mind draws me not to a recliner on a sandy beach (although it sounds most pleasant), but to exotic adventures…
Roger’s Demise
As the last rays of sunshine radiated through the clouds, to the clicking sound of the thirty or so cameras attached to the eyeballs of the tourists around me, I replaced my lens cap and sat back to sip my…
Enter the Dragon
The idea of an African Safari has never been at the top of my travel list. I’m confident that it would be fantastic, and when I make it to Africa I will most certainly partake, but in terms of the…
Whip it real good!
In 2013 I found myself in a small mountain village about an hour out of the Flores fishing village and divers’ Launchpad of Labuan Bajo. I was there with a school group looking for opportunities for cultural experience and community…
Making a meal of Timor
We don’t often think much about the act of preparing for, and cooking a meal. Of course we’re more than happy to follow the menu of the glut of cooking shows that crowd the television schedule, and share our favourite…
A Class of its own.
Most travellers dream of an upgrade. The mysterious world behind the curtain is tantalising, and made all the more desirable by the short taste of luxury we see as we traipse like cattle into the live export rows just behind…
No delays please – we’re Australian
This blog might seem angry and mean spirited… And it is. But I did not change the intent once I cooled down because somewhere amidst the vitriol there might be a good lesson for someone. One thing that every traveller…
Travelling to a village on a hill
When I think of Indonesia, my thoughts do not drift to the crowded streets of Jakarta or even to the party beats of Kuta Beach and they definitely do not rest on the country’s religious preferences. When I think of Indonesia I think of a small village on a mountain.