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Greetings from Bali

Last week I was telling you about how the magic happens in Bali.. if you missed it you can catch up here.

I was telling you Tomas and Raul arrived.. and we embarked on a new adventure.. one part of the plan is we need beautiful offices for a team working from here..

Things can happen quickly here, you can get things done PDQ - I'm not sure why but a combination of high-trust, minimal bureaucracy and a young enthusiastic population means things just happen.

Last Saturday we went to look at a dream office location, by Thursday afternoon we found ourselves sitting in a Notary office in Denpasar exchanging contracts and after a trip to the bank to make a transfer we are the proud owner of a dream office on the beach complete with swimming pool.

Two sisters owned the property, and as the deal was finished, they handed me a big bunch of keys.

Actually, we had an idea we would find an old house in Denpasar or some commercial offices in the business quarter. But we spotted this advert for a beach bar, in Ketewel, the same village area as our warehouse. It's not really a tourist area, whoever built this place misjudged the market because not far away are much better beaches with hundreds of bars and restaurants, here is just a windswept area with no facilities. There is (next door) a beach shack cafe popular with Japanese surfers, but that's it. The place is wild and remote even though it is only 20 minutes from Denpasar city.

Tomas has made a design plan already.. And today they are cleaning everything and taking out all the stuff we don't need.

The Internet was ordered this morning and will be installed by Monday or Tuesday. It's amazing how quickly you can get things done here.

Now I'm sure you are asking yourself: What on earth are they playing at? Why do they need cool offices overlooking the sea in Bali?

Stay tuned and soon I will tell you everything.. but what I can tell you now is this is something in the pipeline (maybe in 6 months) that you will use to take your online business to a whole new level without spending a fortune.

Cool offices we hope will attract the brightest and best of young Indonesian tech talent, that can be used to your advantage..

Turkish earthquake appeal.

Here in Indonesia earthquakes are common, in my days here I have experienced two strong ones and it's a little scary, but completely dwarfed by the awful disaster still unfolding in Southern Turkey and areas. Regular readers will know that we have been making trips to Turkey and sourcing products recently. And so with that connection, we feel we need to do something to help. So for the sales from all February of Turkish products, we will give back ALL our profit margin to Turkey - via our agent who will ensure it goes directly in full to people really in need. Thank you for your support, just stock up now from our Turkish range and you will help those companies and help us to help out.

It's all happening at once!!

More news next week.

Take care, hope you have a great Valentines' weekend trade and a romantic day on Tuesday.

David