Graeme Dinnen
A Scot, born in Hong Kong, living for 45 years in Asia – long enough to discover that banking, despite its impressive quantities of money, was not, ultimately, my idea of a fulfilling life.
So my wife and I opened a natural health centre, concentrating on parasites, birth trauma and the various mysterious ways in which the human body can decide to misbehave.
In 2014, we sold our house in Chichester, West Sussex and climbed onto a plane in search of somewhere in the world in which to live for the foreseeable future.
Sri Lanka – steamy and crowded. Singapore – clean and orderly, which can become exhausting. Bali – laid-back and dangerously persuasive. Australia – vast and enthusiastic. Chile – long, thin and far too much geography for one country.
Bali won. Of course it did.
From there we explored Indonesia’s more remote islands, following the old spice routes and the ghosts of European colonial ambition through places where nutmeg, mace and cloves once seemed worth killing for.
Now retired in Cornwall, I spend my time helping people make sense of their poor health, investigating everything of interest and writing non-fiction books about whatever refuses to leave me alone.