The Next Great House of Fashion

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Kuta was not far from the main town on Bali, Dempasar, so we went there for a day to do some shopping (we were buggered if we were going to buy anything off those people on the beach).

Dempasar was a true shopping paradise. It was a chance to pick-up some more gifts for everyone back home plus a few for ourselves. There were all sorts of wooden artefacts, but I took a liking to a wooden chess board with pieces in the shapes of Bali style 'Garrudas'. It was also excellent for clothes, which were not as good quality as those in Thailand, but were much less mainstream in design and were made from far more interesting materials. We could well be seeing the 'Bali influence' on the cat-walks back in Europe some time in the future.

If we had some cash behind as, and had the contacts, we could set ourselves up with a nice little import / export business and corner the European market on Bali designed clothing. We could be mixing with the fashion set, appearing on the clothes show, talking with a camp voice and drinking champagne for breakfast very soon now! Who knows, maybe we should have given it a go.

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