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  • Education,  Lifestyle,  Nature,  Parenting,  Travel

    Our Year at the Green School:

    One of the primary reasons we moved to Bali was so that my son could attend the Green School, an international school in the middle of the jungle whose goal is to create green leaders of the future. I first heard about the school through a friend of mine who once lived in Singapore. It was generating a lot of buzz among expats living in South East Asia, she said. The school was opened in 2008 by John Hardy, a Canadian who moved to Bali and created a wildly successful eponymous jewelry company with his wife. As the story goes, he was galvanized by Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”…

  • Nature,  Travel

    The Fruits of Bali

    Rambutan. Mangosteen. Durian. With a roll of the “rrrrr”, the names of these Southeast Asian fruits are deliciously fun to articulate. They’re also deeply satisfying to eat. You have to work to get to their sweet spots. One of the joys of moving abroad is exposing your taste buds to new flavors. For me, discovering Bali’s colorful fruits has been one of the culinary highlights of living on this island. Here’s a sampling of Bali’s tropical fruits. Durian – this is, without a doubt, Bali’s most controversial fruit. Some people love it. Others find it offensive. Known as the “stinky fruit”, it is banned from many hotel rooms because of…