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little victories.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 18 March 2010
I do live in Paradise and any bitching or moaning I do will sound like, well, bitching and moaning. I don’t have to deal with a lot of the things that you (out there in the real world) do. I don’t have bills or traffic jams, I don’t have financial stress or a job to [...]
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Cute, cuddly and delicious.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 15 March 2010
Over the past few weeks I’ve had many a discussion about food – meat namely – and what I would eat and what I wouldn’t eat. Through the discussion with my Muslim friends here in BK, they all say no to pork, absolutely no way will they let pig pass through their lips. But, on other [...]
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We wait, I write…
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 15 March 2010
There has been no surf since last Tuesday, so things are getting a little antsy in the village. There is only so long we can all sit around the restro talking shit – although we do manage to do a very good job of it for at least three hours every afternoon. I’m in the [...]
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pink sky with a beer in hand. friday.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 13 March 2010
Yesterday was friday in Batu Karas, the day when all of the boys visit the Mosque and the women cook for them and feed them when they get home. I spent the morning catching up on some writing that needed to be done and then headed into Legok Pari (the main strip in Batu Karas) for the [...]
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turtles, batu hiu and mojitos… a day unlike the others
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 12 March 2010
Yesterday we decided that it was about time that we got out of the village and went and saw some of the sites that the tourists travel so far to come and see. So, we (Sara, our wonderful new Belgian friend Emilie and myself) left the village early in the morning and headed out to Batu Hiu (Shark Rock) which [...]
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A morning surf. The day awaits.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 9 March 2010
This mornings surf was not that great. Good company though. Some new friends and I floated out on the ocean at about 6.45am waiting for the mornings surf to roll in. It’s a pretty spectacular time to be out on the water. The rising sun shoots crystals across the top of the bottle blue ocean that blind you [...]
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Beach, beats and bintang.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 7 March 2010
‘ There isn’t much I miss from back home. In fact, I don’t really miss anything at all. Except an available social life. Whether or not I took advantage of that when at home is irrelevant. I miss having the option to go out and gather with a group of friends and just let loose. Just have [...]
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Rain, Rain, go away.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 6 March 2010
It’s rainy season here in Java, Indonesia, and honestly, there hasn’t been that much heavy rain in the past few weeks, I think the heavens have been saving it all up for today… when I really wanted to go surfing. But I’m not skilled or daring enough to surf in a thunderstorm, not yet anyway. I’ve heard that [...]
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The Solo Traveller.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 6 March 2010
I know a lot of girls who are scared of travelling alone. My mother for one goes into a state of panic every time I mention I might be going on an adventure solo. Even as simple as driving between states in Australia was enough to cause her to go into a spiral of What if’s… I [...]
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A yellow dressed day in the Canyon of Green.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 5 March 2010
I’ve always loved white water rafting. There is something about mixing the tranquillity of a canoe trip with the high powered adrenaline pumping sport of flying over a rapid that really gets me. We spent an incredible day rafting through the rivers of Borneo last year, so when the opportunity came to go body rafting [...]
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a prophet, a booking and another day in Batu Karas.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 27 February 2010
No surfing this weekend, there are too many people in the water! If you are planning to come to visit Batu Karas, I’d strongly encourage avoiding Indonesian public holiday weekends – of which there are MANY… about one per month. This weekend is the celebration of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, and everyone gets time off work. [...]
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Harvest time…
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 20 February 2010
Last year we spent a month in Northern India, and for the first time in my life, I saw expansive bright green rice fields. Their beauty stood out as they stretched across dry desert lands, growing strong in the wet fields. I watched as the farmers bent over with their sickles, cutting and piling the [...]
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Hand to Mouth 101…
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 19 February 2010
Living in a village in remote Java, I have found that there are some skills that are necessary to learn… and some that I’d just really like to… The first of these skills is to master the art of eating with my hand(s) in true traditional Indo style. In this part of the world chopsticks aren’t [...]
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The plane will come eventually, right?
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 19 January 2010
I love travelling solo, I’ve done lots of it, and there is something very rewarding in seeing just how far you can push yourself, the things you can manage on your own, the places you visit. One thing I hate more than anything travelling solo is being in transit. It’s like you’ve suddenly found a [...]
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Is it Saturday already?
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 16 January 2010
Is it really Saturday? I guess so. I seemed to have misplaced the past few days. I looked around to see if I could find them, but it’s become clear to me that they are gone. I’m sick. I’ve been sick for about three days now at varying degrees, my body has been so kind as [...]
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the curious case of the bather bottom thief.
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 13 January 2010
Well, well, well. What have we here? We have our first hiccup in village life… and it is a rather odd one. Someone is stealing our bather bottoms. On Sunday (I think – days here… really hard to keep track of), I went swimming at the beach, which I do most days of late since all the [...]
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shake, shake, shake…
Blog: Barefoot Inked - 13 January 2010
Here we are again. Four days ago, I was sitting where I am right now, in front of my lap top, at our dining room table, looking out at the bright green fronds of the Coconut palms that grow through our living room roof (how’s island living eh?)… I was working, (I’m in the middle of [...]
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