We have left Ubud and landed on a little crescent of blackish volcanic sand and still, blue ocean at the eastern tip of Bali. The short walk from our thatch-roofed villa to the water’s edge is complicated only by the intense heat of the sand and the stark white hulls of jukung, the traditional

When we decided to come to Bali for two months, I knew I wanted to spend much of that time in Ubud. I hadn’t been in seventeen years, but I’d always loved the gentleness and beauty of the slow-paced artists’ centre set amongst the terraced rice fields. When friends heard we were coming back

Our original plan was to take the kids out of school for six months to drive around Australia. But since we were ticking off bucket list items and all, on a whim I suggested to Mark that we could also spend a couple of months in Bali. Steamy frangipani dreams being mine alone, I