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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…
So we had an eventful start to the year. Saturday 14th January 2023 started like any other morning for us in Lombok. I slowly pull up the blinds to our bedroom window. The view that greets me takes my breath away - a lush green, tropical valley stretches out before me, bathed in…
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Pic of me with my grandson living my desired future on an island called Gili Air You are 1 decision away from changing your life. What do you do? Act or wait? Do you find yourself constantly thinking: I want to live a better life I want to live a simpler life
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.
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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…
It’s Monday morning and we have just arrived at the fresh market in Ampenan. Small horse & carts line up on the road outside the market. These are local…
On Friday 3rd of June 2022, our flight from Jakarta circled over Lombok, an island in Indonesia that I was going to be visiting for the first time…
It is Tuesday 9 August 2022, and I am taking my morning walk on Senggigi beach. Senggigi is an established suburb on the west coast of Lombok island…
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…
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…
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Reflections on living a simpler life in Lombok, Indonesia

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