With Jean-Rene Gossart, French Theatre is taking Root in Bali
One could say that French-speaking communities around Asia are very lucky to be able to attend various stage plays every...
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The Battle of the Beer
It was Christmas Eve 1984, and, just like I did every Christmas Eve in those days, I was running around...
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Christmas 1991 was my first in Indonesia and the first of my life outside England. I had not given any...
Five Things Men Do During the World Cup
It’s World Cup season! Let’s keep the celebrations going with a Sacha Stevenson video dedicated to the fans. Do you...
Jakarta’s First Comedy Club Celebrates 17 Years
April 21st, 2018 will mark 17 years of live international standup comedy in Jakarta. To celebrate, there will be an...
England’s Got Talent Too
While my friend Sean and I were touring northern France and Belgium in my Datsun 260Z, we found ourselves, for...
They’re playing our song!
Every couple has a song which means something special to them. Maybe it’s the song that was playing when they...
Government Puts a Bounty on Local Rat Heads
In what might closely resemble a future dystopia in the capital, Jakarta provincial government has asked locals to kill rats...
Return of a Friend
Jakarta’s Jalan Jaksa was once a great place for making odd, surreal and semi-imaginary friends, as Daniel Pope recalls. When...
Almost the Last Laugh
Three British expats share a near-death experience on a trip to Kuala Lumpur… A few years ago I was hosting...
Health and Safety Indonesian-Style
A few years ago my father told me that he would like to come and visit me in Jakarta. Wonderful,...
Coincidental Christmas
As I write this I am sitting on a Cebu Pacific flight back from Manila, Philippines, having just attended...
He Who Laughs Last
In the winter of 1990, I was working in real estate in London with my business partner, Steve Collins. One...
Filling the Grill
In the early ‘90s, I was working in sales and marketing at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel in Jakarta. Our...
A World of Tradition
I love traditions. Family traditions, national traditions, anything that is traditional in the true sense of the word. I guess...
Proof that Not Refusing to Save the Planet Might Not be a Bad Idea
Most people will be very surprised to learn that the world’s population of polar bears has shrunk by almost 60...
Catching a Flick
I like movies that are either funny or true, meaning I don’t generally see the point of letting precious minutes...
A Person, Another Person and a Third Person Walk into a Bar
Political correctness has become part of everyone’s lives over the last couple of decades. Everyone now needs to be very...
Nothing New
When I went to Istanbul recently, I was eager to submit to the full tourist experience and immerse myself completely...
Real Heroes
I’ve never been a fan of those works of fiction that portray super muscular, superheroes performing amazing and noble feats...
Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Daze of Summer
The summer of 1976 was the hottest and driest in the UK since records began, with the months of June,...