We were inspired to take a non-traditional Christmas and New Year holiday this year, mainly because we were invited to the wedding ceremony for Tom and Dtik in Vientiane Lao PDR (Tom being my boss from Hatfield in Canada). Kuala Lumpur The holiday actually started with the first of our two New Years, because Islamic … [Read more…]
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…]
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