Jules Bio

Jules is on a 6 month sabbatical. She's a civil servant who was asked to take six months unpaid to help balance the books.

She's doing this part of her trip on her own. Started off seeing some friends in the USA and then went to Peru and the Galapagos with these friends. Then she went to Australia where one of her best friends was getting married. She was there for about a month with her mates and now finally she's on her own with six weeks in South East Asia.

It's the first time she's ever travelled on her own. She did languages at university and spent a year in Chile doing Spanish but never went anywhere without her friends. In fact she's not used to doing much on her own.

She has a very tight knit group of friends- a gang of five girls. She's not totally comfortable in all male company. Not quite a girly girl but certainly more herself in female company when we're talking about groups.

That one of her gang is getting married in Australia is significant. It's beginning of the end of the gang. She's suddenly found that all the gang are in love apart from her. She presumed that she'd be able to get one of the gang to join her after the wedding for a bit of travel. But she discovered that they couldn't. Not because they couldn't take the time off work but because they wanted to use their holiday time to go off with their boyfriends rather than with her.

By contract Jules hasn't been in love since she was 18. Had a few relationships but nothing that stuck.

In the right environment, when she feels comfortable, she's great fun. Funny, flirty, filthy. But travelling on her own is a long way from her comfort zone. She flew from Oz to Bali and on to Kuta beach. And she really hated it. Didn't know how she was going to cope if travelling on your own was all going to be like this. She met someone who recommended she fly out to Flores and see Kelimuta and the Komodo dragons. This was a good call- she'd enjoyed Kelimutu and actually meeting more normal Indonesians. She was really enjoying the bus ride as it made her feel 'authentic' for want of a better word. Hence her annoyance when she meets Sean.