Blog put on hold for three days
An old time served work colleauge and legendary skateboarder from England called Matt Bain has been in Bali for 3 weeks so not much going on Blogwise, Instead we have been just having fun surfing together, small waves still. Also we experieced some Indonesian punk live in Kuta on Legian street and have been sampling the local brand beer Bintang and a Local whisky mix called Arak that comes in a plastic flask with guiness coke and honey. Matts going back tomorrow great to see him again. Due to hanging out with Matt my last 16 sobre months have temporarily taken a 3 day pause and now my head and body remembers all the benefits of an alcohol free lifestyle so it is back on the healthy tip again.
Health update
No illness or stomach upsets so far, eating street/local food at least once usually 3 times a day. Starting to feel the effects of eating rice 2 / 3 times a day (eg all carbed up with no real fibre). I have turned a similar colour to many of the local Indonesians and my chest is red raw from surfing bare chested 5 hrs a day. Life is great, I really am feeling at home here and settled now. I know my way around many of the seats on my moped. I am getting most of my food at very low, local Indonesian prices and some of the old women working in the restaurants at the beach called Sarangan are really looking after me in the most mothering of ways.
Natural born Mothers
This is great as my mum died of cancer aged 41 when I was 17 so I am enjoying this. The Indonesian women that I have been meeting at Sarangan are very kind and community minded. Sharing and genuinely caring, it is very easy to be cynical coming from England about people who care to asume that they want something from you, especially as Indonesia is still classed to my knowledge as a third world economy. However they have agreed and do only charge me half price for my food. I have explained that this will help me stay twice as long if they do this. They agreed as long as I did not tell any other tourists that visit in their restaurant. I have agreed and all is good. They are becoming familiar faces in my world that laugh smile and joke all day long each time I see them. I cannot easily articulate eloquently just how truly wonderful it is to be greeted by smiley faces every time I go and return from a surf.. very simply so far…
I really like the Indonesian people…
