30 September 2015: Great to be back in Mertasari after three days with the wild men of Borneo (now mostly in heavy eye make-up): you step out your front door and there's s bevy of beauties. The sweet shy warung girl now poses for the camera like a fashion model; the Besakihnese truck driver in attendance is beaming good will and his kernet side-kick is a very stylish. In the beach park a well-designed timber bungalow is rising, next to the row of municipal artshops no one wants to rent. On the groyne another karangasem groover in high hip-hop fashion greets me. Balinese men wipe the floor with the borneons in the fashion stakes

 

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I just met a mexican tantric sex master called Miguel on mertasari beach — he looked like the Syrian billionaire on BBC's Hard Talk last night, that was my pick/up line- and took him to pondok merana the beach hut warung food stall and then home to meet ketut my in-house daddy-chaser/videographer who has erectile disfunction.

They hit it off like a house on fire