Tag: Toilets
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A Dire Experience
Pak Wayan has either had an unexpected windfall or, we’ve been paying him far too much for his taxi services; I suspect it is the latter. It was the gleaming, dent free, almost brand-new car that came to pick us up from the airport last Saturday that was the giveaway. ‘Pak, you have a new […]
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My Indonesian Potty-Training
One of the things that intrigued me a lot when I moved to Indonesia last year, were the dirty footmarks that I often encountered on the loo seats in public toilets. As a new arrival, I was still very ignorant about Indonesian customs but what I did know was that toilet paper is not always […]
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‘How Long Till We Get There?’
Holy Moly what a journey! We are now back home in Jakarta after our weekend away at a ‘very nice hotel’. The hotel which grandly claimed that it was situated in Bogor, actually turned out to be about a hundred miles further south (a slight exaggeration but it sure felt like it on the journey […]
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Irma, My Douche
Since I started writing this blog 3 weeks ago, I have become an inveterate note taker. For someone who has previously, only on the very rarest occasions, written stuff down, this is quite a volte-face. I have never written ‘lists’ shopping or otherwise. Instead I’ve chosen to juggle a hundred million things in my head, […]
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