The lucky ones…. Only the lucky ones get out alive… This clichéd saying that everyone would have heard at least once in their life, most likely in a dramatic film, can also be applied to the lives of most sharks worldwide. As I sit here… Read More »The Lucky Ones……
Back in 1971, Rusty Miller and Steve Cooney came to Uluwatu. Not a single surfer had seen the break before them and barely a westerner had gazed upon that majestic, if foreboding, stretch of craggy coastline. Within a year, surfers across Australia were adding the… Read More »HIDDEN VALLEY: FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE LUXURIOUS
As I have recently written, Bali, in the sense of a picture-postcard, tropical paradise, has had its time. Murky waters, trash like confetti on streets and beaches and more traffic year-round than Byron Bay on Boxing Day has left the little island a less-than-idyllic holiday… Read More »BALI SPIRIT FESTIVAL: A GREATER PURPOSE
As I have recently written, Bali, in the sense of a picture-postcard, tropical paradise, has had its time. Murky waters, trash like confetti on streets and beaches and more traffic year-round than Byron Bay on Boxing Day has left the little island a less-than-idyllic holiday… Read More »BALI SPIRIT FESTIVAL: A GREATER PURPOSE
As I have recently written, Bali, in the sense of a picture-postcard, tropical paradise, has had its time. Murky waters, trash like confetti on streets and beaches and more traffic year-round than Byron Bay on Boxing Day has left the little island a less-than-idyllic holiday… Read More »BALI SPIRIT FESTIVAL: A GREATER PURPOSE
As I write this, I am surrounded by palm fronds and broad, green banana leaves. I sit at a rough hewn timber table, a thatched roof sheltering me from the tropical sun, my love sitting across the table from me, a raw coconut, decapitated to… Read More »BALI: THE TROPICAL PARADOX
Our dear friend Matthew Scarff is currently fighting for his life in a Bali hospital. Due to a severe impact and injury to his head he is in an induced coma and has been placed on a ventilator. On Monday afternoon he underwent a successful… Read More »Please Help Our Mate Matt Scarff
Sometimes you just don’t have time to get away but are in desperate need of a break. I needed to check out and get off the grid between work commitments last week so I spent 3 nights at The Villa’s of Byron. When you are… Read More »Staycation at The Villa’s of Byron
When a dear friend, who lives around the corner from us in Suffolk, recently went on holiday with her husband and two daughters – they packed the car with swimming gear and other vacation paraphernalia and drove off to their holiday destination – 1km down… Read More »Holiday at Home
