Leaving Bray

Signing off....

2010-06-30T20:03:00.001+08:00

As promised a while ago, it's now time for this series of disconnected ramblings to finally fizzle out, at least for the time being. I left Indonesia on Friday 11th June (after five days in a row of hospital visits) and flew to London where I was met at the airport on Saturday afternoon by my good friends Michael, Jane and Sarah who took me directly to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead for yet

All good things come to an end...

2010-06-11T14:37:00.000+08:00

And that was certainly true this week..... 1. My placement : last Saturday (5th June) was my last day working at RSUD dr. TC HILLERS, Maumere.As one reader pointed out to me in an email last week, I haven't said much about the work part of my placement on here. That's true, for a number of reasons : firstly, I'm not sure how much of it would be of any interest to anyone; secondly, much of the

I'm not quite sure what happened there..........

2010-05-25T10:09:00.001+08:00

Apologies to regular subscribers or users of Google Reader if you received a whole lot of unreadable garbage as a notification of the last post, I have no idea what was going on. I think it was somehow connected to the fact that I typed a lot of the text in MS Word last night and then pasted it in this morning.Anyway, I think it's fixed now so sorry about that !

Back on two feet... (with apologies in advance for the photos)

2010-05-25T09:02:00.002+08:00

Having got back from my holiday trip across Flores, I can now report that I’ve had a few visits to the outpatients’ clinic in the hospital to have a rather nasty leg wound dressed. This was as a result of a (previously unreported !) fall during our holiday while staying in the traditional village of Watu. While sitting in our host’s home, I asked where the toilet was. I was told it was “di

Tour de Flores

2010-05-12T10:27:00.000+08:00

Last Friday week, I headed off on the two day bus trip to Labuanbajo at the western end of Flores to meet my sister and brother-in-law (my first visitors since I've been here). They arrived in Bali on Saturday and then took the short flight from there to Flores on Monday morning. After a day's relaxing and catching up we then headed off on a road trip through Flores on Tuesday morning, arriving

6 weeks

2010-04-26T10:52:00.000+08:00

Another long gap between posts, no excuses except that there hasn't really been anything of note to write about and, as my father always advised "if you don't have anything to say, then say nothing" (and, of course, I always take his advice). I'm really in the home straight now, it looks as if Saturday 5th June will be my last day at work and I'll probably leave Maumere on the following Tuesday

Easter at the islands

2010-04-06T12:56:00.001+08:00

Happy Easter everyone ! Easter is a very big deal here as Flores is a predominantly Roman Catholic island and Larantuka, at the eastern end of the island, is especially famous for its Holy Week and Easter weekend celebrations. This year is the 500th anniversary of the Portuguese arrivals here and so was a specially significant celebration and many people from Maumere and all over Flores made

Equal Opportunities ?

2010-03-31T10:59:00.000+08:00

Many countries have some form of anti-discrimination legislation, especially governing employment. In Ireland, for example, there are nine grounds on which it is illegal to discriminate within employment. They are :Gender Marital status Family status Age Race Religion Disability Sexual orientation Membership of the Traveller community So, where is this all leading? Well, I buy the local newspaper

Bali and back....

2010-03-30T12:01:00.000+08:00