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History in the making
[words and photograph © Narina Exelby] The centre of the universe is a pretty small place. So small, in fact, that you could drive through it in a matter of seconds – and yet at the same time so vast...
View ArticleMusic to make you homesick
We know there’s music that makes you desperate to travel; tunes that inspire wanderlust and have you recklessly searching for a flight somewhere. Anywhere. Anywhere but here. And yet when home is so...
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From Bali, with love
[words and photograph © Narina Exelby] Dear World I’m writing to you from underneath a sacred banyan tree in remote west Bali. It’s cool up here, and quiet – the way that the world so often is when in...
View ArticleKeep calm and don’t carry-on
I don’t get it, this travel-only-with-carry-on trend. Sure, it sounds like an easy way to travel – but the number of people I’ve watched (on every flight) struggle through an airport dragging a...
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Yoga for trash
Rubbish is a huge problem in so many places around the world, Bali included. I guess that’s the downside to being an island on a severely polluted planet: your coastline becomes the semi-permanent...
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Help an orphanage in Bali
At just 12 years old little Hizkia has seen more adventure and desperation in his short life than any of us should ever have to live through. “He lived alone on the road from the age of two,” says...
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Adeng Adeng – Bali’s first buffalo beach-taxi
The cikar runs along endless stretches of deserted beach that few imagine even exist these days in Bali. Adeng Adeng means “slowly slowly” in Balinese and it is a phrase that’s used a lot out here on...
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Keep Calm and…carry the right stuff.
Pittards Military Wet Pack has been a classic travel item for almost 100 years. A cold shower in a hot country is so much pleasanter than a hot shower in a cold country. For the last 18 years (since I...
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Find us on Instagram
Mark and I are finally – finally – on Instagram. I know, we’re way behind the times on this one. Thing is, I’ve had the Instagram app sitting on my phone for more than four years but I decided back...
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Remembering a time…
We spent our days in the precious stillness of the bush, where Dad was building the camps he’d designed. Every day was an adventure; an innocent indulgence in the simple life: climbing trees,...
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The science of adventure
The air is cold up here; so sharp and thin it feels almost brittle. It tugs at your jacket and there is something unnerving in the way that it challenges your breath, making the natural flow of...
View ArticleOrang pendek: the creature unknown to modern science
Eight months ago Pak Bobbi found himself face to face with an ape-like creature that few people even believe exists. Farmers and guides who work around the forested slopes of Gunung Tujuh on...
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Out of control: Indonesia’s fires
I’m writing this in Jakarta airport on my way to Sumatra where hundreds of bushfires are raging out of control – damaging belongings and lungs halfway across Asia. Thousands of Indonesian soldiers...
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Is this the ultimate travel bag?
For years I’ve sat in airports and watched, fascinated, to see how people travel. It seems to come so naturally to some, while others – the ones who clutch onto tablets and books and phones and keys...
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The secret life of shells
Something wasn’t right about the sounds of the morning. There was something out of place: a sound I hadn’t noticed in the post-sunrise bliss of my hammock but, once my ears began to tune in, I realised...
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Surfer groms clean Bali beaches
Lora has been surfing for more than four hours straight. His mother Elly is getting impatient to go home but he shows little sign of coming out of the water yet. Nine year-old Lora is about as stoked...
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Hazy days: the smoke that’s affecting Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Near Bengkulu, south Sumatra, October 2015 You see those rolling hills? Me neither. You know why? Because your lipstick won’t melt. Right now 40 million people are breathing in noxious smoke. The fires...
View ArticleTravel with us through India
Always wanted to travel to India? Then come with us! For the next month Mark and I will be travelling India, and every day we’ll be posting pics on Instagram. From the colours to the craziness, the...
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Welcome home
I’ve been travelling the world for almost 30 years, and while I have always missed those I love, only now do I know what “homesick” really means. Our simple surf cottage in remote West Bali has become...
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Ocean Sole: making art from trash
When you come across an old flipflop washed up on a beach, what do you see? A grungy old shoe? A piece of rubbish? Do you chortle as you point to a particularly battered one and joke, “hey honey,...
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