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Welcome to my crappy Indonesian gym
Aircon? Nope. Equipment? Nope. Safety? Nope. Badly cut-out clippings of stumpy men on the walls? Yup. Welcome to my crappy Indonesian gym. I just renewed my gym membership in Tokyo. It’s expensive....
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IKIMASHO! x WANDERLUST [The World’s Lamest Gyms]
“I asked how much the gym was and he told me he didn’t know. He said he just bought the owner petrol now and again. I told him I didn’t have any petrol so he said for me to just go in and use it for...
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HELLRIDES: KUALA LUMPUR (MALAYSIA) TO NUSA LEMBONGAN (BALI)
Back to Bali – and escaping the End of Days. I’ve written a bit before about Hellrides – those horribly twisted and depraved long-distance drives my old band used to do every night in order to play a...
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Taman Festival: Abandoned Theme Park in Bali, Indonesia
Exploring the Indonesian theme park with no visitors – not living ones anyway… Right now I’m back on mainland Bali after spending a week on the small island of Lembongan off the east coast. During my...
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MY CRAPPY INDONESIAN GYM JUST GOT CRAPPIER
SAY HELLO TO COCONUT! Followers of this blog will by now be well aware of my fondness for tracking down crappy local gyms in new countries I visit. It all started when I visited Nusa Lembongan in 2013...
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IKIMASHO! IN THE FINAL FOR BEST TRAVEL BLOG (+ OCTOBER TRAVEL PLANS)
❤ THANK YOU! / ありがとう!❤ IKIMASHO! has made it through to the final for Best Travel Blog in this year’s Blog Awards Ireland. Thank you to everyone who voted for me! I guess now it’s a case of whether...
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Luxury in the Rice Fields at Villa Sabandari, Ubud, Bali.
Two days of blissfully doing nothing in Bali’s cultural capital After a week of lazing about on Nusa Lembongan and discovering an amazing abandoned theme park in Sanur, I headed north to Ubud, the...
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IKIMASHO! x DAZED: EXPLORING AN ABANDONED (AND HAUNTED) THEME PARK IN INDONESIA
“When the park was dissolved, the owners left the crocodiles there to become wild. There’s an urban legend that the crocodiles ate humans, another reason why the Balinese won’t go near the place” Of...
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SELAMAT DATANG: THE IKIMASHO! GUIDE TO INDONESIA
Why you should visit the world’s largest island nation I’ve been to Indonesia four times now – at least once a year since my first visit in 2013. Despite technically being the largest country in SE...
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Fried Bananas in Bali
Quite often when you travel a lot – and particularly when you are a travel writer – so many little moments can get lost; photos relegated to the the depths of memory cards, overlooked in favour of...
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