Luck helps but it's not enough

VILLA CENTOFIORI

GILI GEDE ISLAND

have spent my entire life to produce wellbeing for my family. The reasons were sometimes different but at the end it was always the same: to provide for the family satisfactorily.

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Initially, the motivation was almost exclusively to raise children so they do not lack anything and had the highest chance in life that awaited them.

I think I've done a good job and at this stage the mother figure was essential, and my wife has done an excellent job. The trips were very important part of our lives and once completed our task as parents, we have abandoned the city life that would no longer met our aspirations and planned a sabbatical year spent on a journey from Singapore to Darwin, through the whole 'Indonesia'. We realized that living in this country would provide new interests and activities for at least another life. It was not our intention to stop at Lombok but the case and maybe the luck almost forced us to put down new roots in this land which at the time was really primitive and I would even call it genuine.

It was 1999 when we arrived in Lombok and we settled in Senggigi that was the only possible accommodation, We tried to stay in a couple hotels with direct access to the beach but we were attacked by street/beach vendors also in the water while swimming and then we moved to hotel "Panorama " just outside Senggigi and we settled into a charming cottage. We shot in Lombok far and wide and some areas were still underserved and difficult to reach. http://issuu.com/villa.centofiori/docs Come for a visit. Call +62 (0)817 368-444 or email me: centofiori.giligede@gmail.com .

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A visit to the southwest that we had noticed from the ferry coming from Bali we had to postpone several times because we had to cross a couple of rivers and our car was not a 4-wheel drive. When we finally were there we could go immediately fascinated by the beauty of the people, the beaches of white coral sand and we went back several times to spend the day. Our particular interest is the sea to have spent our entire life never too far from it.

During those months in Lombok, friends joined us for their holidays and absorbed our enthusiasm for this land and the Sasak ethnic group that lives here. Being too close to retirement, they pushed us to consider settling here indefinitely. In the reality of things they did not have to insist much because the idea persistently overlooked our mind for some time. At the end of our trip that took us to Papua and Darwin we returned to Lombok with the well-established intention of finding a place where we could settle down.

After spending a few weeks to survey possible destinations, we decided that the promontory of the island Gili Gede so close to the coast was the place where we could have everything we were looking for. Isolated but not too much, a space wide enough to be able to enjoy the freedom we never could have had in the city or other inhabited place. A fishing village a few hundred meters away, and dozens of uninhabited islands and pristine white beaches to go for any marine activity above and below the sea surface.

A dazzling sun, a sea of crystal clear water and the absolute absence of mechanical sounds.

Even today we wake up at dawn with the birds chirping, the crowing of the cock of the forest, the sound of the sea on the beach and the water flowing in our park, was no longer even need to fish for eating fresh fish. Communities living in the southwest of http://issuu.com/villa.centofiori/docs Come for a visit. Call +62 (0)817 368-444 or email me: centofiori.giligede@gmail.com .

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Lombok are mainly fishermen and without electricity and refrigeration where stow their catch, are in the position of having to sell quickly the fruit of their labor. The fish that can not sell in the day to local markets, is intended in part to their table and the remainder is cooked over wooden fire and sold the next day to the market.

With our coming, fishermen with their boats dock directly on our beach and offer us wonderful fishes that still gasping on the bottom of the boat. Even today I was able to enjoy excellent red mullets, and this evening I will have dinner cuttlefish with peas and partly fried and golden. Last week we had some wonderful lobster and often excellent turbot with baked potatoes and sole ‘a la meuniere’, especially welcome by our grandchildren.

Once provided essential services to make our life a comfortable one, that otherwise would make staying on the island very uncomfortable, every day is a blaze of wellbeing and enjoyment of life.

My wife imposed a condition ‘sine qua non’ to come and live in Gili Gede, I had to provide electricity and with it all those services that depend on it, a means of communication and reliable internet. The purchase of a boat was the first act had after buying the land.

The water on the island is poor and tied to the monsoon period, it is extremely rich in dissolved minerals that have caused the continued corrosion and deterioration of galvanized pipes and taps. For this reason I strongly desired, sought and obtained to have better water that I brought from the mainland making an underwater pipeline to the island.

Life at Villa Centofiori flows serene and fulfilling. No lack in past emergencies due to http://issuu.com/villa.centofiori/docs Come for a visit. Call +62 (0)817 368-444 or email me: centofiori.giligede@gmail.com .

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monsoon that can be very violent and destructive, but with time, though always careful, I have learned to better respect and work with nature and its forces, even more than I did before.

Today the abrasion of the soil because of the rains is minimized thanks to the terraces we made, the many trees planted and the underground sewage pipes that spill into the sea the huge amount of rain that literally washed the soil in the past. Fruit trees scattered throughout the park give us delicious fruits and pour in the air their scent of flowers first and ripe fruit then. We only have the choice of where to entertain us to talk or dining, both indoor and outdoor in the dozens of nooks that we created for the purpose. A terrace almost hanging under a tree where indulge in pleasant activities, catch the breeze that blows almost incessantly in the dry season or follow the sunset behind Mount Agung in Bali.

Once again I made it all with my own strength with the unlimited help by my wife but many times we had to recognize of having been also fortunate to have had those friends who have encouraged us to stop, we met people decent and available on our road, to have had the friendship and respect of many people who have helped us on many occasions even if only with their advice.

Now, that I've offered our paradise for sale, I hope that you will seize this unique opportunity that is presented to you.

You will benefit from our expertise and experience that offers the fertile ground where you will find already a very advantaged starting point for your own projects, whatever they are.

Villa Centofiori offers already a lot without changes and still lends itself to countless solutions and developments unimaginable to anyone able to grasp the opportunity and the fortune.

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