Mr Fixer
40 QUESTION: The idyllic island of Lombok is getting busier and busier, with tourists everywhere these days. New shops, new hotels and new restaurants are springing up all Tongue-in-cheek over the place!
answers to your Why can’t these people just stay at personal and home and leave the island alone? Who building problems do they think they are? QUESTION: Since my wife and I came to the tourist hot spot of Lombok, she hasn’t shut up about how great it is.
They come here spending their money on cheap exotic food and cheap souvenirs and just ruin the place.
White sandy beaches, turquoise blue crystal clear waters, great restaurants, amazing surfing and snorkelling, boat trips to deserted islands, not to mention the great bands at the Happy Café, where you can get your sinuses cleared for free.
20 years ago, Senggigi was just a sleepy fishing village with a few bamboo bars and restaurants. The beaches were wide and open with just a few fishing boats dotted along the shores.
I have many holiday snaps to prove she never shuts up about it. Is there any way I can get her to shut up? MR.FIXER: Don’t worry! The Japanese have just invented a digital camera with such a fast speed, you can actually take a picture of your wife with her mouth closed.
Now look at it! Beach front bars and restaurants with swimming pools, Italian restaurants selling pasta and spaghetti and brochette (whatever that is!)
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MR FIXER: Yes! The government could legislate the bars and restaurants out of existence by taxing them to oblivion, and apply health and safety regulations that would be too expensive to comply with; just as in the UK and the rest of Europe. A more subtle approach (which would be just as effective) would be to widen and resurface the main road through Senggigi, making sure that the road level was raised so as to effectively put all the offending bars, restaurants and supermarkets below the water line so they flood every time it rains.
What has that got to do with Indonesia? We even have 24 hour supermarkets now! Where will it end? How I long for the old days when Senggigi was truly idyllic.
Then, we could all go back to tilling the soil and growing coconuts. Idyllic!
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Yours sincerely, Mr Angry (single), Green Valley.
Customers and tourists would leave in droves – assuming they could still walk after having stumbled into or out of the below ground level establishments.
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