For posterity, I just can’t resist posting my overall 79th place finish in the Singapore Half Marathon out of 9,700+ runners; 10th in the 30-34 age group (although I know some older people beat me so that”s not such a useful statistic). My official time was 1hr 39:19 – not too shabby when it’s 27 … [Read more…]
After a lot of hard work at the evenings and weekend, with my fellow Brit Daniel Quinn, I am finally launching a website project about climbing (bagging) the mountains and volcanoes of Indonesia. We’re getting some good press, including a Lifestyle section front page spread in the Sunday Jakarta Post: Climb Ev’ry Mountain. The website … [Read more…]
Before the start of the long wet season and some busy work schedules, we decided to squeeze in bagging one last local West Java volcano. Mount (Gunung) Papandayan is not a hard one to get to or climb because you pretty much drive into the crater, but somehow we failed to make it to the … [Read more…]
Over the Lebraran (Idul Fitri) holidays Andy and I spent 10 days in North Sulawesi. The first 4 days were spent in Bunaken National Park, which is a marine park just off the coast of Manado. Our aim was to learn to dive and get our Padi Open Water certifications; I have dived before but … [Read more…]
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