October 23 – November 12, 2013 Three weeks in Indonesia. A nation of countless islands, hundreds of languages, different people with different cultures and religions,…. To say that we didn’t even begin to scratch the surface would be an understatement.…
Sunday, November 10, 2013 Everything we heard or read about Jakarta was leaning heavily towards the negative – to say the least. Gridlocked traffic, not that many interesting sites, … so we decided to give the place a miss and…
Friday, November 8, 2013 Borobudur is about a 1 hour drive from Yogyakarta, and we arrived here around noon. Checked into Rumah Boedi Private Residences. The hotel and grounds were nice, but here, as in some other places (accommodation, restaurants,..) I…
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 As mentioned we arrived in the evening after a long drive from Malang. By 9pm we were checked-in to The Phoenix Hotel (our drivers pronounced the hotel as fo-nik), where, after freshening up, we enjoyed a drink in…
Saturday, November 2, 2013 We said goodbye to Ubud around 10:30 am and headed for Denpasar airport to catch our flight to Malang, Java. Booking the plane ticket and getting our hotel to confirm an airport transfer proved somewhat cumbersome,…
Friday, November 1, 2013 We left our hotel in Amed at 7:30am and were back in Ubud around 10am. There was a specific reason that we decided to come back here for a day, before moving on to Java tomorrow. At…
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 We left gorgeous Alam Indah Hotel at 10am, with our pre-arranged car and driver, to go to Amed. On the way we stopped at Tirta Gangga (Water Palace) for a look-see. Loved the ‘Myst’ like stepping…
Sunday, October 26, 2013 To get to our next destination we organized a private pick-up with our next hotel. By far the easiest way to get around Bali: car and a driver: affordable and comfortable. So at 10am our driver…
Wednesday to Saturday, October 23 – 26, 2013 We flew the long way from Perth to Denpasar (via Singapore), but then it was an awards ticket in business class, so no complaints 🙂 Arrived at Denpasar airport, breezed through immigration…
July 8 – October 23, 2013 We left San Francisco (again, after a 6-day stopover between Europe and Australia) for Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, where we landed on July 8th. For the rest of July we drove around exploring Australia’s island…
Monday, October 21, 2013 It’s been great, all of it! The camping, driving on remote roads, catching up and staying with friends, visiting and re-visiting places,…. We arrived in Sydney on Sep 1st and fly out of Perth tomorrow, Oct…
October 9 to 22, 2013 Around lunchtime on October 9th we reached the northern suburbs or Perth. Our first stop en route to Fremantle was in Scarborough. Back in 1996 we lived there for a some months for Stephen’s work.…
Sunday, October 6, 2013 We took our time getting to Perth from Gnaraloo Bay. The first night we all ended up staying at The Edge Resort in Kalbarri. We got a deluxe spa suite at a discounted rate and discovered we had a…
Friday, October 4, 2013 So here we get to the purpose behind the long drives of the previous days: getting to Gnaraloo 3 Mile Camp in time to catch up with our friend Louisa and her family (Besim, Zeke and…
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Wow, that was a long and boring drive. Day 1 was from Broome to Port Hedland, some 600kms. Day 2 was from Port Hedland to a place called Milinya Roadhouse and a further 800kms. Day 3…
