When I moved to Shanghai on an 18 month work assignment in early 2008, I rented a furnished apartment in the Xintiandi area.
I soon realized that I needed to get some additional stuff and decided that the big new Ikea near the Indoor Stadium would have what I required.
So I went there one Saturday to do some shopping.
I [...]

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by Don Silcock
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Feral Scooters – Indonesian Style
I have been meaning to write this up since Xmas….
We heard the first one before we saw it! Sounded kind of somewhere in between a chain saw and a garden whipper-snipper and my first reaction was it was that either it was some kind of joke, or maybe an Indonesian version of [...]

Filed under: Bali - Indonesia
by Don Silcock
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