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11 June 2019
Flying to Kalimantan Natalia and I had an 1145 flight from Kuching to Pontianak. The international side of Kuching airport doesn’t have many facilities to hang out in, so there’s no point to get to the airport too early. But with post-Raya congestion a possibility we decided to allow ourselves 2 hours plus plenty of […]
9 April 2019
It was raining when I woke. Better today than yesterday, my sightseeing day! I went downstairs and found that the cook had gone out to buy provisions. He was already due back but was probably stuck somewhere due to the rain. So breakfast wasn’t available in-house. I wandered a couple of doors away and had […]
8 April 2019
Getting ready I woke early due to the previous early mornings I’ve had, and also the one hour time difference. I had suggested an early departure but the petrol station didn’t open till 0800. I killed time with a walk back to the waterfront to catch the view in a different light, before returning for […]
7 April 2019
I woke early again around 0600 and was downstairs at a cafe for breakfast at 0630. I checked out and walked to the nearby Kuching Sentral station after and checked-in for my bus (which really just means having the bus registration place number disclosed to you so you can board). It was a brief wait […]
15 February 2019
My little holiday After four nights but three full days, I’m homeward bound. But because I use to word “home” to both mean Kuching and Auckland, I’d better clarify! Today I leave Bali to fly back to New Zealand. It had been a nice stopover while being the most economical way of getting from Kuching […]
11 February 2019
Having seen what airports can be like after the festive season, I headed to the airport around 0800 for my 1125 departure for Kuala Lumpur and onwards to Bali. This was the most economical way for me to get from Kuching to Auckland in the post Chinese New Year period. It’s a bonus that I […]
3 October 2018
After yoga and a light lunch of Vietnamese sandwiches, we rested before starting a cooking class at a nearby restaurant. We were taught to make things the old fashioned way with a cobek (grinding stone) and lesong (mortar/pestle – stone mortar and long wooden pestle used standing up, as opposed to the Malaysian one used […]
3 October 2018
Today was much like yesterday with yoga and not much else. Except that I wanted to re-sample Babi Guling and try Bebek Bengil’s crispy fried duck. The former, we were able to do lunch-time at Ibu Oka. It was delicious: the pork was tender, the crackling crispy and the floured deep-fried pork nice and salty. […]
1 October 2018
I had set the alarm for 0640 so I could have breakfast at 0700. That would give some time for brekkie to settle before yoga at 0800 at Yoga Barn. With 4 nights in Ubud (three full days), I thought I’d get myself into a routine of daily yoga. It’s not often I get to […]
30 September 2018
We had organised transport to take us from Lovina to Ubud today. This will be our move inland and somewhat of a highland at 600m. The driver Putu turned up a little ahead of the agreed time of 1030. He had worked in New Zealand three times as a seasonal worker on kiwifruit farms. The […]