2012 in Review
Happy New Year and welcome to the new and improved and renamed version of our blog! Before we face the new year I always like to look back on what the past year held for us. A lot of the year seemed...
View ArticleChristmas in Kuta
Is it too late to talk about Christmas? Too bad if it is, because I’m going to anyway. As you may have deduced, our family members are kind of spread out around the world. Josh and I are in New...
View ArticleThe Worst Buffet Ever (and some New Year’s fireworks)
One thing you should know about staying in Bali over the Christmas and New Year period, is that most of the hotels require that you pay a compulsory Christmas and/or New Year’s Eve dinner fee. We...
View ArticleTop Dining Picks: Seminyak, Bali
Bali sometimes feels like our second home. Growing up in West Papua, we had to go through Bali every time we went in or out of Indonesia, and we would often stop for a few days while we were there. I...
View ArticleBittersweet Bali
It may have been the time of year, it may have been that I’ve grown up a bit, or it may be just the fact that Bali is getting steadily more over-developed, hyper-commercialised, and under-maintained,...
View Article10 Useful Phrases for Travellers to Indonesia
Every time we go to a new country where the language isn’t English, we try to learn a few useful phrases in the local language before we get there. Firstly, it makes our lives easier. Secondly, we...
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