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Let’s talk Australia.
I won’t go into detail about the flight to Sydney from Bali. It was 5 hours long. Horrible, and uncomfortable and I hated it. However, in just 5 magical hours we went from Asia to Australia. First off, here’s a photo from our flight: I can hardly describe to you…
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Departure Day.
Our flight to Australia on June 11, 2024 was a red eye leaving at 11:30pm out of Denpassar, Bali. This gave us an entire day in Ubud before leaving at 6pm for the airport which is about a 2 hour drive away. This was fortuitous as I had booked myself…
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T minus 1.
We left Bali on June 11th on the red-eye to Sydney, Australia that lifted off at 11:30pm. The flight left from Denpassar, which is about a 1.5 to 2 hour drive from Ubud, where we were staying. This meant we left town at 6pm to catch our late night flight,…
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Golden Times.
Most of you know I became a mom relatively later in life. Erez was born when I was 38 and Mia when I was 40. Coupled with a lifelong obsession with preserving memories, this later-age motherhood has lead to my being plagued with what I sometimes call “persistent nostalgia.” Amongst…
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Last Days in the Tropics.
I often marvel at the fact that we have had 6 months of summer. Since we arrived in Sri Lanka in mid-December the lowest daytime temperature we have experienced is about 27 degrees, but those days have been rare. More typically daytime temps have ranged between a hot 29 degrees…
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Goodbye Wood School
Today was Erez and Mia’s last day of school. It was a pretty brief school year, just 5 weeks. Is your inner child jealous of their truncated academic year? I know mine is. It was a regular Friday with early dismissal at 2pm. I chatted with both kids’ teachers and…
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What is Bali? This tourist’s impression.
My short answer that question is: I’m really not sure. My longer answer after 5 very short weeks here – and I am partial to longer answers – is below. Bali is actually two, if not more. One of these, the most obvious and least accesible to someone like me…
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That time we stole someone’s dog by accident.
I probably mentioned somewhere that my kids have the incredible ability to make good friends wherever they go. It has been so gratifying to get to witness this trait of their’s and also to wonder where they aquired it. Definitely not from me. There have been several excellent human friends…
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Last, desperate days abroad.
Listen, there are a lot of things I’m looking forward to back in Canada. Other than seeing all of you here are a few things I’m excited about: Now that we’ve got that out of the way let me tell you about our last desperate days in Bali. We will…
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All Eyes on Australia.
Today is June 5th, 2024. We depart Bali for Sydney, Australia the evening of June 11 for a late-night flight that will have us arriving there in the early hours of the 12th. As always, Noam and I have been agonizing over our plans there for at least 2 weeks,…
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Bali Retrospective, a really boring read for anyone but me.
Hi all, I’ve just finished writing the message below, and I want to tell you, the title of it is wrong. It’s a really boring read for me too. I’m going to preserve it here, because why not, but seriously. It’s not that interesting. And no, I’m not saying this…
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9 Angels, 9 Bambu
Every now and again one encounters a concept restaurant that makes you say “why didn’t I think of that?” That would be 9 Angles, 9 Bambu Vegan Buffet. Your city may have tried such a concept before, but likely it didn’t last long. The ongoing existence of a restaurant like…
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Post School Waterfall Trek and dinner with Fireflies.
One of items on our list of things to do here in Bali was to “have dinner with the fireflies.” No, this is not dinner theatre with a 1950’s cover band. These are actual fireflies. A colleague of Noam’s who has been here in Bali for the past year told…
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26 days.
That’s the number of days from today until we return home to Vancouver on June 25, 2024. We left on August 1, 2023, that’s 303 days ago. We are now grappling with the reality of our return home in less than a month while still attempting to stay present here…
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All your knicknacks are from Bali.
The other day Noam and I decided to go for a little ride outside the city. There was one particular stretch of road I wanted to check out where I’d spied some housewares shops from our drive up there a week ago to the Japanese tunnels. You may remember that…
Dolgins on the Road 2023/2024 