We’re just getting back from Taman Safari, a wildlife park off Jakarta, near Puncak. We did the night safari and […]
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Aarti Garde
Having spent a number of years in various corporate jobs in India, working 11 hours a day 5 days a week, I became a trailing expat spouse in 2011, living first in Vietnam, then in Indonesia, and now in Peru. I spend my days dreaming, hate housework, love my hobbies, need to exercise and lose weight, love to travel, and yes, love my gadgets. Occasionally I get nostalgic pangs and yearn for the corporate life, the sense of achievement, and the security it offered. On the flip side, I've learnt new skills, new languages, started up and closed a business in Indonesia and now call myself a photographer/traveler.A gem of a tour
Last week I found myself on a visit to the gemstone market at Rawa Bening in Jakarta, wondering WTH I […]
Apple Pie
So much leisure, so little time – to write about it! Yes, I’m now in a ‘hectic’ leisure life, having […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset
From all the pictures I have in the collection, it appears I’m more of a sunrise than a sunset person. […]
Inside Museum Bahari
My exploration of Jakarta is totally ON! Picked up an excellent book called Jakarta Explorers – it’s got hundreds of […]
Out in the open
Today I got on the back of an ‘ojek’ (that’s Indonesian for motorbike taxi, like xe om in Vietnam), such […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Faces
Great topic, very inspired, and this is what you get: The Bayon temple in Angkor Thom, Cambodia, […]
Do deewane sheher mein
We’ve spent a better part of this year hunting houses. First, we had planned to move to Saigon from Hanoi, […]
A change in career?
This weekend we have the whale of a car all to ourselves. So we took off to the zoo early […]
Say cheeeeese!
I’ve been practicing portraiture in the photography course. The key to good portraits is to ALWAYS flatter your subject (in […]