Last weekend two new night venues had their openings, Lost City in Canggu and Destino on Jalan Petitenget. They took a while to get finished but they both managed to get across the line and we welcome them to the local nightlife fray. The Bali Spirit Festival was also held over the past week, culminating on the weekend with three nights of world music that we managed to attend and once more had wowzer of a time. The music nights starred the sounds of South american Porangui and hart Sawyer, an american performer who played during quite a large storm with the uuuhs and ahhs of the crowd as lightning blasted the perimeter. Fortunately it didn’t blast her. Brazilian woman’s samba drum group, based in Byron Bay, meninas da Lua stole the show a couple of times on Saturday and Sunday nights while the goddess of world music, Deya Dova and her husband with help from their dancing daughter and other dancers got her freak on and brought the house down. The BSF is really one of those events that makes Bali what it is today – or better said, reflects what Bali is today. A peaceful, youthful, healthy and exuberant place of beautiful people. Gee, the BSF this year was powerful stuff.