The second day of our Aussie road trip started on a camping ground just south of Brisbane. We had slept pretty OK in our station wagon with Sini's yoga mat and a couple of Ikea-blankets to soften the floor of the trunk and the tipped back seats. Even the few flying bugs that had flown in the night before hadn't bothered us much. We had a breakfast of uncooked toast with peanut butter and jam, accompanied by porridge which we cooked with some difficulty on our han...

There's nothing quite like going home after a long trip abroad. Or that's what we thought. Turns out visiting an Ikea store overseas is the next best thing! We had long ago made plans to rent a campervan in New Zealand and an RV in the USA, but we hadn't made any such plans for Australia until we were in Indonesia. There we decided to rent a station wagon (farmari in Finnish) with all sorts of camping gear and an option of sleeping inside the vehicle. So a day...

After more than three months in Asia we were excited to move on and go to a western country. Australia was one of the countries we wanted to visit from early on, it was probably on the first list we made back in the summer of 2013. We didn't really know what we would be doing there though and we'd only managed to make plans of where to arrive in and where to leave. Our two and a half weeks would start in Brisbane and end in Sydney, for no particular reason. Looki...

After having stayed in Gili Air for so long in somewhat primitive conditions (the bungalow was OK, but there were a little too many cockroaches and the power was pretty unreliable) we wanted to have some luxury for the last full night in Indonesia. I covered some parts about our arrival in Bali's Canggu area in the last entry, but putting it short the trip from Gili Air took a lot longer than we had expected. This wasn't too bad but a little annoying still since ...

Which Gili should it be? Before this trip I read some stuff about the Gili Islands in Indonesia. Looking at the map I couldn't for the life of me figure out where they were. The term Gili means a small island, so you end up finding quite a lot of those in a country consisting of 17'000 islands. If you are talking about Gilis next to Bali you are probably talking about the three islands which are actually closer to Lombok's northwestern corner; from west to eas...