The next morning I took the sky-train to the Air Asia terminal - and on an early flight back to Bali, Ringo was waiting for me in arrivals. "We have a lot of work to do Ringo" - I told him.. 

Coco arrived in Hong Kong, spent five hours in various queues before being taken to the quarantine hotel downtown for three nights.. after she flew to Xiamen on a very short flight but now inside China - inside a government quarantine centre being tested two times a day for seven days. The room is large and clean with a good supply of water and snacks. Room enough to practice the yoga moves she learned in Ubud.. she is getting to expert level.. and posting her moves on her social media channel in China. After Xiamen she needs to get home to Yiwu.. could fly or go by train, and it's not clear if she will have to do further quarantine in Yiwu, she thinks three days. So much trouble, so many tests.. it will have taken basically a month to get back inside China. You can't help thinking this is designed to stop Chinese people from travelling, a travel ban in all but name. 

Here in Bali my first job was to go and see the three wise incense men of Ubud.  They are incense obsessed and produce a very special incense made from over 30 herbal ingredients developed over three generations and now tweaked and perfected for Ancient Wisdom.. They call it simply: Healing Incense and it has to be burned in a particular ritualistic way..  I went along to smell the modified fragrances. My idea was to make the aromatic element more dominant and create a cleaner recognisable fragrance. So because of the delay in Jakarta they had more time to work on getting the blends perfect. And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised, I have a very good nose.. and almost all fragrances products have to get past my nose before they can be listed at AW. And these guys had listened closely to my brief and delivered.