In Reply to: Poppy posted by GaryD on Wednesday, 23. March 2016 at 17:01 Bali Time:
. . . half way down unpaved Jl. Pantai Kuta. She was 16. I was 25. Poppies resto opened on New Year's Day 1972. It was some Californians whose concept was a wine bar. They got derailed on wine cause there wasn't any in the country. Jenik fell down a well round this time and was badly injured, if memory serves me well.
Her and her boyfriend's masterpiece was/is Poppies Cottages, over from the resto in
Poppies Lane (1), where they built 48 cottages on 2000m2, and you see no one as you walk the paths. Grass was cut with scissors.
Electricity came to Kuta in 74 or 75. Before then it was candles, battery boomboxes, obors. A room, no fan, was US$0.25, including breakfast of black muddy coffee and a banana. That was a homestay. We all chuckled when someone built rooms with AC and genset. Who was going to pay the US$5 for a night there