Meeting Anton in Tuban Bali
Saturday night Ika, Jevon and I sped down to Jl. Kartika Plaza. we had 2 things on our minds, food and meeting Anton, from S.Africa, before he left that evening. We met Anton last year as he was preparing to move from Cape Town, to Sydney. Many months have passed and this short trip was R&R for him. He spent a good deal of time down at the Bukit, and highly recommends it for a total chill out time. I know whenever I take a ride down there its feels like village Bali. I’m sure at nighttime its peaceful and perfect for someone from the city on a getaway trip.
Anton was packing his stuff and saying goodbye to friends, so Ika and I stopped at an Indian restaurant, next to Bali Slingshot, the giant rubber band with a capsule, used to shoot people in the air. Anton joined us after a while and we share some decent Indian food. Ika ordered a mutton dish, myself a lamb dish, which together with rice and naan was a good meal. Prices for main courses were in the 50,000rp range.
Anton’s friend Nonik joined us at the end. Nonik from Bali, is a manger at La Breeze restaurant, a new place on Jl. Kartika Plaza. Jevon just wanted to play with all the cutlery and condiments and we wee very thankful to the wait staff, as they took care of him while we ate. Anton had about 30 minutes to get back to his gear and shoot off to the airport, so we said a quick goodbye. He’s enjoying Sydney and feels the move has been a good one. I hope to see him on his trip home sometime to SA.
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I rememeber Anton from last year, the bbq king, a nice guy and I’m glad things are working out for him in Oz.
Dear Nick, nice to read about your night out on the town, and that Jevon has started to say a few words. You said in your reply to my previous post that I should be aware that Bali is like everywhere else; you have to make a living somehow. I do realise that; I’ll give you my basic situation and gameplan, and would welcome any constructive criticism. I am 45 years old with a daughter aged 21. Although I am certainly not rolling in cash, I do own my own house outright. I am planning to rent the place out, spending half the year in Bali and the other half in the U.K. (my old mother’s on her own, father’s in a care home, she welcomes the idea of having someone else in the house). I reckon to give myself an allowance of £70 per week; I realise that amount won’t allow me to live in immense luxury, but that’s not the idea. I hope to be able to supplement that possibly in the travel industry, I speak pretty good French and Russian (boastful bastard!) and hopefully tourists from both of those countries will want tour advice. Whilst back in the U.K., I hold the P.C.V. Bus and Coach licence, and that’s work you can get in and out of quite easily. I plan to stay in a losmen that’s basic, but not a complete dive. Whilst my Indonesian is nowhere near as good as yours, I have a basic conversational knowledge, and have had private lessons from an Indonesian student in Leeds, and have got a book which comes with two tapes. I know it sounds a bit corny, like a 1960’s hippy, but I need to find myself a bit and have a change of scene, absorbing a bit of Balinese culture. I certainly don’t want to live in Kuta; don’t get me wrong, I like a few beers, but I’m at the age when a pleasant barbie appeals far more than being totally rat-arsed drunk at 3am. Anyway, like I say, construcive criticism welcome.
Sounds pretty stinky
I rememeber Anton from last year, the bbq king, a nice guy and I’m glad things are working out for him in Oz.