The First Post

I've been thinking of starting this blog for a while. When we first got here in late 2010, with Chubbs Around Africa only very recently killed off, I had every intention of continuing to document our life abroad. Nothing happened though. Why? Well in the main it was because I had nothing much to blog about. My job means I spend most of my week in the office- by any standards an area of my life which is decidedly unbloggable. In any case who wants to read about the daily travails of an accountant? Home life has been largely serene. The house is in one piece, electricians turn up on time with proper tools and don't impale our water pipes while fixing the wiring. All in all, two years of very pleasant but not very noteworthy expat life.

So what has changed? Well, we've decided to make things a bit more interesting. By my normal standards of holding down a job (three years on average), we should be on the home stretch. I promised five years this time and I'd like to honour that, but even if I do, that means we're probably getting on for halfway. Although we've done a fair bit of travel, we've done precious little in Indonesia. Since arriving, we've visited Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and the Czech Republic. In the same two years, our domestic travel has stretched to three weekends in Yogyakarta, Bali and Tiger Island- shocking!

So, our plan for 2013 is to get out and visit a lot more of this great country. Typically, our first destination for 2013 is Vietnam but we'll get cracking on Indonesia as soon as we get back! Maybe a spot of travel will give us something to write about- this will be an awfully short lived blog if not!