On a grey, long winter weekend, we drove up into the Dandenong Ranges to do a getaway-cation in a yurt. Somewhere, the cold is prettier and the air smells of wet eucalyptus and woodsmoke. Every trip of ours starts the same way: a small ceremony of leaving the city. It’s usually shakshuka at Tall…
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Flying to Sydney for a mental health break. What followed: a vegan Japanese feast, a borrowed dog, and a love language Indomie.…
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It’s my first night in Fiji. We reached Nadi only a few hours ago. My first impression of Fiji was that Fijian were very friendly, which reminded me of Bali. My second impression, after waiting in the immigration line for an hour, was that everything is done in a much slower phase in Fiji.…
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Can I love Melbourne as much as I love Japan? This question comes to me almost every morning ━ when I have to layer my clothes to go to work.…
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The candy guy in Cairns Night Market recommended the swimming hole Babinda Boulders to us when we told him we were going on an undetermined road trip the day after. It was his hometown, he said, and I swear I could see the twinkle in his eyes when he told us about it. I…
Keep ReadingI went kayaking on Sydney Harbour with the iconic Opera House as my backdrop.…
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Cairns has always been on my Australia-to-visit list after I moved to Melbourne. It's higher on the list than Brisbane and Perth.…
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These are the things I can think of, for now, that set us Indonesians aside while travelling, albeit the title Traveling while Indonesian.…
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These days, my weary self yearns only for one kind of travel, to time travel to the pre-covid era — when I could travel on a whim, even with a very limiting Indonesian passport.…
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I have been collecting Japan things to do for years in my notes. Things to do, to eat, to check out that I missed or want to do one day.…
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Hello from the quarantine hotel in Jakarta! Here are on the menu for today from breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner.…
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Another day of quarantine. My mind is elsewhere. My thoughts are scattered. I think! I didn't bring enough clothes here; oddly, I like it.…
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