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Murphy’s Law
Pedro’s Saturday morning was spent pulling his hair out whilst trying to put together a 5year budget plan for the new university that he is helping to create. My Saturday morning on the other hand was rather less mentally taxing, as I spent mine doing ‘domestic’ things such as taking an embarrassingly large amount of […]
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The Long and the Short, the Thick and the Thin
Two weeks down the line and I’m starting to get to grips with the ‘Exotic’ fruit and vegetables which grow so abundantly here. Everywhere I go there are tiny stalls and mobile carts selling bananas, (some as long and thick as your arm, some as tiny as your finger) coconuts, mangoes of all different hues, […]
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Yes, we’ve arrived in Jakarta! (Looking Back At My First Post)
The Prelude In the past week we have travelled over 17,442 miles. We’ve both laughed and we’ve cried. There has been a divorce and a marriage proposal, all in the same morning. We’ve drunk ‘probably the most expensive lager in the world’ in the middle of the night in Dubai, and imbibed overpriced wine everywhere […]
Lottie Nevin - The Red House Diaries 