Bali

  • Radio Melayu:  Lets begin the winter fightback! Get packing!

    I recently spent a brilliant evening on Radio Melayu chatting about my recent adventures and how we all need to find a way to get packing and escape winter by getting overseas or embracing winter and snuggling into a gorgeous resort down south. The link below features descriptions for a few of my new favourite…

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  • Apurva Kempinski delivers a new experience on the greatest island in the world.

    My son Tom and I recently travelled with Batik Air to our favourite island in the world, Bali, to experience a new resort, Apurva Kempinski.  It was promised to us as a ‘new era of first class hospitality’ and without doubt the level of luxury is absorbing from the moment you arrive. The soaring spaces…

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  • ABC Breakfast Show: Mount Agung; The Mother Mountain and her importance to the Balinese

      http://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/saturdaybreakfast/saturday-breakfast/9903082   To listen to my chat about Mount Agung on the attached link, scroll the timer forward to about the 40 minute mark.Saturday mornings on the ABC are always a great way to start my weekend.  This chat was about my amazing old friend who can’t seem to stay out of the news;…

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  • 6PR with Chris Ilsley: Putting A Face To The Name – Mount Agung

      She is an old girl.  She is the Old Girl.  She is over 3000m high.  That’s nearly a kilometre higher than Australia’s biggest mountain, Mt Kosciuszko, and about two kilometres than Western Australia’s biggest peak, Bluff Knoll. In my discussion on 6PR’s Perth Tonight with Chris Ilsley, we discussed my fears in climbing this…

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  • 6PR Radio Interview: Turtle Release Programs

    Below is a link to a radio story I presented on turtle release programs:    

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  • Agung…again.

    Agung…again.

    Written for and published by Pan Pacific Nirwana. Agung…again. In 2013 I wrote an article about climbing Mount Agung, an active volcano in Bali. I began that account by making a statement about my style of family holiday to Bali, “It has to be more than just waterslides and sitting at a swim up bar.”…

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