One mustn’t look into the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexplicable charm which attracts us. Gustave Flaubert   Serene, quaint, calm, are the words that come to mind in describing the Banda Islands, a small group of ten islands in the Eastern Indonesian province of Maluku. Banda Naira, the administrative center of … More The Ragged Edge of Paradise: Postcard from the Banda Islands