Building a Beach House With No Hard Hats and Bare Feet

A friend and I found a piece of beachfront land available for lease in Candidasa in Bali last October. We went to Candidasa to relax for a couple of days and maybe shop a little. We didnt expect to come back to Ubud having bought the lease. It was a completely spontaneous decision. Well you should see the view, it is stunning. Views like that cost a million dollars in many countries, we paid considerably less.

So having parted with a huge wad of Rupiah..and I mean huge, all cash because the family dont trust banks!!! we found ourselves the proud owners of a derelict building with views to die for.

The old building has now been knocked down. The family organised this for us. We turned up one day to oversee the foundations work being done on our 'building site 'and found 4 men and 3 women wearing smiles, sunhats, trousers and t shirts and in bare feet mixing concrete and hauling baskets of boulders into the footings.

They have never heard of Health and Safety bless them!

The foundations were laid in a week. They are now waiting for us to give them some drawings so they can build. Hmmmm suppose we had better do some then.

Watch this space!!!