Ta'Cenc - Sannat, Malta - April, 2005
A Very Happy Birthday (21.11.2005 13:27)
I stayed at Ta Cenc with my then husband-to-be and his parents. On the morning of my birthday (which we were spending in Malta), I woke up, and was told we were going on a surprise trip to Gozo, to stay in Ta Cenc and enjoy the first-rate food and spa... Architecturally, the hotel is gorgeous; all of the rooms are single-story and the walls are limestone, so they seem to radiate warmth, as [more...]

Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary - Ubud, Indonesia - September, 2005
Marvelous Macaques, etcetera (18.11.2005 16:07)
The Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud was one of my favourite places we visited during our four-week stay in Bali. It is very accessible, within walking distance of most hotels in downtown Ubud, and easy to visit with a car, as we did. There are over two hundred macaques residing in this forest, and it seems like we probably saw nearly all of them when we visited. Many of them were lounging near [more...]

Lovina Beach - Singaraja, Indonesia - September, 2005
Beautiful, but not the best of Bali (18.11.2005 12:12)
Lovina Beach is one of the tourist hot-spots of Bali, and I'm afraid it doesn't rank highly on my list of them. Here's why: Accessibility: Lovina is easy enough to access if you arrange transportation with your hotel or hire a car, both of which are reasonably affordable options (we hired a car for about 20 USD per day). It spans a few miles of the northern coast of Bali, a lot of which is [more...]