Bali Coffee In Many Ways

coffee with style For coffee drinkers travelling in Bali, there are plenty of opportunities to get your caffeine fix, however, you need to be aware that whenever you order a coffee you may not always get what you were expecting. Indonesia is well known as a quality producer of coffee, though whether the good stuff makes it to the local …

Getting A Sporting Fix in Bali

having a Bintang at the AFL grand final With both of us being sports fans and working in a sports-related field, living in Bali and away from Australia’s strong sporting culture, it has been challenging to keep up with the latest news in sport. It has meant that we miss a lot, and have needed to be creative …

Recycling the Ubud Way

There is a fantastic ‘Bali Creative Reuse Center’ in Ubud on Jalan Bisma. It is next to an early childhood centre called The Spring, and has many colourful flags out the front for easy spotting. If driving though it is a long way down Bisma. There is a small entry to a small space, where there is …

A Christmas in Bali

Coming up to a year in Bali, we were ready to escape back home to Perth for an Australian Christmas. We arrived a week before Christmas Day, glad to have missed the mad rush leading up to it, and were able to slot right into just the family celebrations. Our Christmas Day family portrait in Australia …

To Peel or not to Peel

Every savvy world traveller understands the importance of staying healthy while travelling. All the guidebooks include food safety guidelines, particularly for travelling in Asia or third world countries, and all will include a version of this primary key rule: If you can cook it, boil it, or peel it you can eat it…otherwise forget it.  …

Ubud the Artist Town

Ubud is well known as an artist’s community. There are a few high-class galleries that are worth a visit to see traditional Balinese and contemporary art, such as Agung Rai Museum of Art (ARMA), Neka Art Museum, Antonio Blanco Museum, and the Museum Puri Lukisan. There are also plenty of art shops around town including …

Bali Halloween no Substitute for the Real Thing

A whole lotta pumpkins If you know about the good and bad spirits of the Balinese culture and religion and the demonic statues they create leading up to Nyepi, it is surprising that the Balinese don’t embrace Halloween. We arrived back from a couple of weeks in North America, after seeing pumpkins and Halloween paraphernalia everywhere, …