Happy Father’s Day
Day 94 – Katherine, Australia The high point of my day was seeing all the “Father’s Day” signs at the supermarket. I took the Greyhound this morning (arriving 2 hours in advance, I had really nothing better to do) to Katherine. There isn’t much to do in the city itself, which is sprawling, so going…
Fannie Bay and East Point
Day 93 – Darwin, Australia In my travel guide, looking for things to do, I was struck by the “mangrove walk”. I thought the name very promising. It is a walkway going through a mangrove, of course, and advancing into the sea. To get there, however, was not that easy a piece of cake. It…
Botanic Gardens and the MAGNT
Day 92 – Darwin, Australia I had decided to spend the day in the Botanic Gardens. I started by preparing a lunch to take with me, and when I opened the fridge to take a carrot out, I saw that the nice I had put them on was in fact the freezer tray. So I…
Darwin
Day 91 – Darwin, Australia Australia, at least, Darwin, where I landed, has an (un)convenient time difference of an hour and a half with Bali, which itself was 6 hours before France, I’m starting to lose the count of what time is where. Added that my flight was in the worse hours of the night,…
Leaving Asia
Day 90 – Kuta, Indonesia So… 3 months. I’m leaving Asia tonight, my flight is at 1:30 AM, and I’m landing in Darwin, Australia, at around 4:50 AM. Talk about flying early. I’m rather excited. I have nicely emptied my backpack, giving along some things, sending some other things back home since I was sending…
Day at the beach
Day 89 – Kuta, Indonesia I spent most of today at the beach. The tide was high, so what I described yesterday was a low tide. The difference was obvious, with the waves breaking directly by the shore and not far from it. Well, of course some break far from it, but new waves reform…
Kuta
Day 88 – Kuta, Indonesia So this morning in Ubud, I still hadn’t decided where to go. I had boiled things down to three choices: go to Denpasar, the capital city of Bali, which is inland, and has an interesting museum about Balinese life and culture. I could also go to Kuta, a beach town,…
Monkey Forest
Day 87 – Ubud, Indonesia So, one of the things to do in Ubud is take a walk in the Monkey Forest. There are important guidelines, of course, such as don’t feed the monkeys, don’t look at them in the eyes, don’t smile (it is seen as aggressive), and don’t try to get anything back…
Ubud
Day 86 – Ubud, Indonesia Yesterday I went back to the beach for two hours. I was approached in that time by people wanting to sell me: – snorkelling tour – massages – fruits – clothes – musical instruments – silver jewellery. All charming, starting very politely by complimenting my tattoos, enquiring if I enjoyed…
Lovina Beach – 2
Day 84 – Lovina Beach, Indonesia Today’s fashion is pants bought in Malaysia, top custom-made in Vietnam, and headscarf bought in Cambodia. I don’t have a mirror to check the complete outfit, but at least the top and the pants are coordinated. I started my day with… I already forgot, but I think that just…