As I am writing this I was originally supposed to be in Syria right now. The Hamas attacks on October 7 put paid to that idea. With only 2 weeks off I toyed with Burma but civil war there literally killed that one off. Then I remembered my longstanding bucket list item of seeing Komodo dragons in the wild. It ticked a number of boxes being shorter, easier flights readily accessible from Australia.
Suzanne and I went to Bali in the 1980s and have no great urge to spend much time there so what else to do to fill 2 weeks? Borobodur on Java was similarly on my bucket list. This segued beautifully on to my discovering that Java is actually a fascinating island of jungles, waterfalls and volcanoes. The rest as they say is history and we have booked a full week here.
