Tag: poverty
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Jakarta: When The Sun Goes Down
I took this photograph a couple of weeks ago whilst stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the airport. In daylight this part of the city is pretty ugly. The muddy river is strewn full of sewerage and garbage – the flotsam and jetsam of the shanties and slums that sprawl either side […]
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Wayan Rumah
For those of you beauties that regularly follow my blog, you should hopefully by now be well aquainted with Wayan. If however you’ve just stumbled upon this post, or need your memory jogging take a look at Indonesian Fashion: Rule Number One. Wayan stepped into my life two months ago, and to be honest I […]
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The Pros, And The Cons. Moving To Indonesia.
I have recently started writing posts for a great site called Expat Arrivals http://www.expatarrivals.com/ I owe a lot to websites such as this, as in the time between moving from London to Indonesia last year, I spent hours trawling the internet for any info that I could find that might help me learn something/anything about the new […]
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Scratch And Sniff
When I was a little girl around the age of 6, or7, my Father brought me a Scratch and Sniff book back from one of his visits to the States. I was absolutely enchanted as I had never seen anything like it before. I spent hours scratching and sniffing the pictures of strawberries, chocolate cake […]