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A market of birds.

Indie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:35:14 +0000

After sweltering stinking noisy Jakarta, where I sheltered in my room most of the time, arriving in Yogyakarta was a relief. The temperature was much more agreable, there was less trafic, and it had some charm, something which Jakarta lacked, or maybe hid very well. I didn’t get up to so much in this city …

Gili Islands

Indie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:28:52 +0000

I didn’t even know I was going to go to the Gili Islands, Islands that I had heard of before and nearly went to 8 years ago. They have always been on my mind as the prospect of being able to live on an island that you can walk around in about one hour seemed …

Gunung Sibayak

Indie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:23:47 +0000

A while ago me and Jules went for a walk up a volcano, we met two young ladies from England who were also going up, so we formed a group. The volcano was in the town of Berastagi in the north of Sumatra. Totally devoid of the usual tourist trappings of other towns it felt …

Bungus to Medan around there a bit, leaving friends making new ones, meeting old ones, on and on I travel along.

Indie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:25:29 +0000

From Sumatra with friends to Java alone, and then onto Bali with family. As usual I have been covering ground whilst changing company, this type of living creates the most wonderful memories, segmented by the places I have been and by the company I kept. I figured it was about time I digitised some of …

Monkeys and Muslims

Indie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:06:52 +0000

There is this great guest house in Malaysia, the rooms are nothing out of the ordinary, in fact they seemed to be very sauna like, but them again it is in Malaysia. The thing about this guest house seemed to be its roof top garden, it had a good view, but then again nothing out …

Cameron Highlands from somewhere else.

Indie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:52:34 +0000

I’m on a boat! I’m on a mother$*#@ing boat!! Rushed through Malaysia immigration, passport stamped out, rushed onto the boat to Indnesia, sit down, set off almost 2 hours later…classic, didn’t even get time to eat breakfast due to the implied hurry. A lot has happened since the last time I put finger to keyboard, …