The tropics are full of nasty diseases. Our old condo was in a ‘red alert’ danger zone for dengue, a tropical virus that gives you high feve...

After yoga this morning I felt I ought to take a taxi home, as after a week with a child out of school, struck by a disease with an unprono...

The neighbour’s boy hovers around the patio. ‘Can Tijm come out to play?’ ‘Sure,’ I nod, and call inside, ‘Tijm, come out, your friend is he...

As mentioned before the biggest problems in our jungle home have not been of the animal kind. Falling branches, spiky leaves, and, most an...

After the first night in our new house, the cock-a-doodle-doo of a distant cockerel woke me. Sleepily, I thought, cool, the neighbours  hav...

We are in the park. It is busy, and as always our blond, blue-eyed kids gather attention. A friendly, older gentleman asks Tijm and Linde wh...

Eight weeks is a long time. Eight weeks of no school, of three kids at home that need entertaining, eight weeks of no time left for anything...