20 May 2013
What do expatriate parents in Indonesia spend most money on? Educating their children. Educating your child through school and University will cost the average expatriate parent between USD 200,000–500,000 by the time your child is 21. And there is no guarantee that your child will benefit much by having the difference between these two sums [...]
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20 May 2013
Meet Liat Solomon. The owner of Zula, Down to Earth, and Earth Café where focus is on creating a better world through pure, organic foods. When did you come to Bali originally? The first time I came to Bali was in 1996 to visit. I came as a tourist at the end of all my [...]
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20 May 2013
More than a decade ago, Ewa Wojkowska remembers driving at night in complete darkness through a remote town in East Timor. Located in one of the poorest districts of that new country, the town had no electricity and there was a total lack of any nocturnal activity. “When night fell, the population of 60,000 had [...]
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20 May 2013
Alberto Remondi was born in Italy in 1963, and grew up in the family home in Rome, one of the world’s most beautiful cities. He started living independently at age 18 when he and a friend moved into their own apartment. By age 28, he had visited almost the whole of Europe – England, France, [...]
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20 May 2013
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. On the 14th of March, the triennial CITES Conference in Bangkok adopted important measures to [...]
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07 May 2013
In Bali there are no parking problems, you can park anywhere you want. In Bali there are no zoning regulations, you can build anywhere you want. Not true. Zoning regulations are a hot topic these days in Bali. Land is zoned under many different categories, most starting off as agriculture land, developing into different stages [...]
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07 May 2013
Elora Hardy was part of the first wave of expat kids growing up in Ubud in the 1980′s. Her creative parents would drop the little girl off with friendly craftsmen in various villages where she learned how to carve, paint and batik all sorts of things, but mostly fairy princesses and dragons. In 1994 at [...]
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06 May 2013
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art anyone could ever want.” – Andy Warhol. Meet Gil Frei, also known as Bamboo Gil, a yacht captain who jumped ship in Bali 18 years ago and now grows his own food and medical herbs on a little piece of paradise near [...]
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06 May 2013
Jaga, or Mr. Jaga as he likes to be referred to, is a bit of a character. He hails from the village of Petemon in Pejeng, about 10 minutes by motorbike from the centre of Ubud. I met Jaga when I attended my first cockfight recently. He was busy surveying the rather chaotic scene of [...]
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24 April 2013
In the summer of 1984, a friend and I decided to take my beloved, but ageing Datsun 260Z, over into mainland Europe from England for a seriously low budget two-week motoring holiday. At the Dover ferry terminal, nobody took much notice of two clean cut young men in a shiny sports car and we cleared [...]
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