Yesterday afternoon, we needed to buy some ice, because the expat teachers were coming to our place for “thank you” drinks in the evening.  The place where we previously bought ice in the village of Lakarsantri no longer sold it., but there was another place two hundred metres up the road. Helen had been there […]

The new house is excellent – like living in a small resort. The nearby mosques seem hell bent on annoying all the Chinese/Indonesian and expatriate infidels in the estate, but you don’t notice them much. Otherwise, it’s far quieter than the Ciputra Villas, where we spent four years. The pool is a bit invigorating, because […]