Retired, Rewired - Living Without Adult Supervision in Bali
- Title
- Retired, Rewired - Living Without Adult Supervision in Bali
- Original language
- Author(s)
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- Publisher
- self published
- ISBN
- —
- Publication date
- March 21, 2017
- Subjects
- expat
- ubud
- Find Book
- Ganesha Bookshop in Ubud and at www.ganeshabooksbali.com
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"Retired, Rewired is the story of long-time resident Wheeler’s journey to proud and exuberant elderhood in Ubud. Wheeler is perhaps best known for her popular Greenspeak column in the Bali Advertiser under the penname “Ibu Kat.” She is also the author of Bali Daze (2009), a collection of her experiences living in Ubud for more than 16 years. This new book of captivating and informative stories are addenda to that earlier book in which she settles into her adopted country, builds houses, engages local help, networks with neighbors and deals with the personalities of outlandish pets and random wildlife living all around her.... Although Retired, Rewired is literary narrative and the very first sentence asserts that the book isn’t about the nuts and bolts of living in Bali as a retiree, every episode gives more texture, nuance and atmosphere than any guidebook could ever aspire to. Even with all its light-hearted bantering, there’s an abundance of rock-hard advice and practical information buried in the text: tips on designing open and closed spaces, bathrooms and bedrooms; housebuilding; renovating old buildings; tropical landscaping; where you can get your Persian carpet professionally cleaned; the procedures, paperwork, documents required for the burial or repatriation of foreigners dying in Bali."
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