A few years ago I was picking up a coffee for myself and one for a friend. I was having a cappuccino and a ‘brewed coffee’ for him. I noticed that not only was his coffee a lot cheaper than mine but it took no time to make whereas I had to wait in a… Read More »
Do you know what the speed of a marching Indonesian child is? I do, it’s torturous. It was only a 20 minute journey the taxi driver told me. Great, so I easily will make the connection and get to Ubud in time to collect my credit card I had left there a few days earlier… Read More »
We were setting camera traps for tigers but we ended up buying a Leopard Cat. Who would have thought I’d ever buy a wild cat. It was hanging in a tree in a beautiful village in the Rimbang Baling national park. The four of us were horrified that a nocturnal animal was being kept in… Read More »
The Sumatran tiger is critically endangered and this summer I spent a couple of weeks setting camera traps to see how many of these magnificent creatures are still alive. Pekanbaru is one entry to Sumatra and from KL it’s only a 40 minute flight. But you cannot imagine a place so different to KL with… Read More »