It’s 8pm on Wednesday 22 March 2023. The warmth of the tropical night gently embraces my skin. It is another balmy evening on Lombok. I’m sitting with a few friends on the steps of the local masjid in Batu Layar. Batu Layar is a small village on the islandContinue Reading
What did you feel when you read that title? A feeling of anxiety and stress? The sudden urge to be somewhere else? Yourself running inside a large spinning wheel? A feeling of relief and gratefulness? You can’t really relate? If you cannot really relate then you are most likely inContinue Reading
2022 will go down as the year that I dramatically transformed my life. The first half of the year I spent in Cape Town, South Africa – my country of birth. The second half of the year I would be spending in Lombok, Indonesia – the country of my forefathers.Continue Reading
It is the 10th of November 2022 and my wife and I are boarding a flight from Lombok to Jakarta, the mega capital of Indonesia. We are excited because we are going to meet my son and his wife with our grandchildren. The last time we saw them was on 1 JuneContinue Reading
Choose to be the fisherman It’s 5:00 on Wednesday, 13 July 2022. It is a clear morning and the full moon is gently lighting up Lombok. In case you missed it the full moon in July 2022 is known as the thunder full moon or supermoon and is the largest of the year. In scientificContinue Reading
My journey from Cape Town to Lombok It’s 14:15 on Friday, 3 June 2022 and Lion Air JT654 from Jakarta touches down at Lombok international airport. The weather is a pleasant thirty degrees and the humidity is 80%. Lombok is a tropical island forming part of the Indonesian archipelago and is locatedContinue Reading