MA VIE SOUS L'EAU

Over the last year and a half, I have developed a weird obsession with Everest. Not weird to my own personal standards, because I do that regularly: I pick on something, for some reason, it strikes a chord and then I give it no rest until I have read and watched and absorbed all the things I can possibly find about it. So last year, my weird obsession was the Everest expeditions. I got a bit distracted with K2 and Nanga Parbat expeditions too. It started innocently by reading

It looks like I am getting old: social media is pissing me off. I remember opening a Facebook account circa 2007 and finding my old housemates from London through it and thinking: this is really super cool, haven’t seen these guys in years but now we can be in touch. Now, I am over it. Sure it’s nice to be able to reach out to people that I wouldn’t be in touch with otherwise and sometimes know what they are up to. Social media gave me a way to meet up with people I wouldn’t

So long before this blog was about our Penida project, it was about my life (wildly interesting, I know). I started it when I was in the process of leaving France for Indonesia, almost 10 years ago now, and it was designed to keep family and friends posted about what was going on. It was also meant as a space for me to write. I published 215 posts on this website, over the years, which is quite the number. But over the span of 10 years that is not that much really. There was