Villa Senara is a three-bedroom retreat in Canggu near Berawa beach which not only offers a lush, natural ambiance but also provides comfortable living spaces where you can enjoy yourselves and relax with ease. The villa has been designed with plenty of large open spaces to allow for a seamless transition between the outdoors and indoors. With expansive gardens flush with tropical foliage, the villa is a natural splendour teeming with verdant tropical vegetation. Near to the villa you have plenty of attractions, restaurants, beaches, and much more.
Surrounded by the verdure of the garden, the 14-metre swimming pool is the crowning jewel of Villa Senara. You will surely find yourselves lounging and idling away either inside the pool splashing around or on the pool deck which is made from wood and houses a few sun loungers under towering palm trees. Relax under their shade while sipping on some cold beverages and cocktails to truly soak it all in and embrace the tropical lifestyle. A signature Balinese bale is found on the garden with a daybed for when you fancy a nap.
Found in a Balinese pavilion under an alang-alang ceiling is the open-plan living area at Villa Senara. The bright and cheerful space is all the more inviting for it overlooks the verdant green gardens. An L-shaped sofa sits facing a large flat-screen TV with DVD player and surround sound; perfect for movie nights. All around you there are abundant plants and trees for an indoor/outdoor experience.
Right in the middle of the pavilion is where you have the dining area with a ten-seater dining table carved out of natural wood for impromptu meals, fun evenings with loved ones, and many a memory gorging on delicious Indonesian and western food. You have the option of cooking up a storm in the villa’s fully-equipped kitchen or you even opt to taste professionally-prepared meals by a villa chef upon request.
Villa Senara is home to three bedrooms of which two are situated on either side of the living area while the third bedroom is tucked away in its own pavilion in the garden and beside the swimming pool. Each of the bedrooms features a spacious and open-concept layout with sliding glass doors that lead directly outdoors.
The bedrooms are well-furnished with king-sized beds that guarantee a well-rested sleep in the night. With minimal design and furnishing, the bedrooms are surely conducive to a great environment wherein you can rest and rejuvenate. The bedrooms are even accompanied by en-suite bathrooms with necessary amenities.
The villa is fully-staffed with plenty of services on offer such as housekeeping, security to ensure you enjoy a sound sleep, personal guest assistance to look after individual needs, and maintenance. The villa staff is happy to offer recommendations and such to guests as they are all locals and know the area quite well. If you wish you can indulge in a massage in-house for which you are charged extra. For guests travelling with children, the villa extends a babysitting service as well as a pool fence as a safety measure. Both these amenities are at an extra cost.
The villa is surrounded by some of the best restaurants in town including Warung Heboh, Green Ginger Noodle House, and Milk & Madu. You’re close to Berawa beach as well which is one of the popular beaches in Canggu for its serene ambiance. There is so much to do including a bike ride along the rice fields.
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How was your Valentine's Day? If it was, well, complicated, the Family Research Council, a conservative, Christian advocacy group in Washington, D.C., would probably not be surprised.
Last month, the FRC's Marriage and Religion Research Institute released its third annual Index of Family Belonging and Rejection. The index reports the percentage of 17-year-olds who have been raised in households headed by two married, biological parents.
According to MARRI, fewer than half (45 percent) of the country's 17-year-olds are growing up in what its analysts call "intact married" families. Among large cities, only one (Cleveland, 15 percent) was worse than Baltimore (16 percent). And as a group, large cities fared so poorly that the authors declared, "City life in the United States is not conducive to family or marriage." A low index score is especially worrisome because, according to the findings in a related MARRI report, family intactness is predictive of positive outcomes in many areas, including educational attainment, the likelihood of living in poverty and dependence on public benefits.
"The majority of American adults can't stand each other enough to raise the kids they brought into existence," said Pat Fagan, co-author of two separate papers describing the index and its implications for public policy, in a phone interview. Mr. Fagan worries that if adults lack the tenacity to marry, stick it out and raise children in stable relationships, children won't have proper role models and support, and our country will be doomed.
But if the end of American society is near, the index can't prove it — not definitively. For one, it does not compare the outcomes of biological families with those of other household structures, such as stepfamilies and long-term cohabiting couples with kids. And regionally, it is not the urban, freewheeling Northeast that has the lowest scores but the more rural, churchgoing south, a fact Mr. Fagan can't explain.
Yet even if one agrees with the findings and conclusions in these reports, it's not clear what should be done about them. The state's blindness to "the importance of the intact married family in shaping the outcomes of its social policies," write Fagan and his co-author, "… is an error of historical proportions." But the idea of government explicitly supporting one household structure over another is frightening. In a worst-case scenario, you could imagine funds for daycare programs designed to help single, working mothers being cut to increase tax breaks for married couples. But would it work? Mr. Fagan and his co-author push for government action but don't offer a single policy prescription.
So while MARRI's basic findings about the prevalence of families led by biological parents and their corresponding social and economic benefits are useful, it seems that some of its conclusions are based not exclusively in the research but in centuries-old fears about cities and anxiety about the dizzying pace of change in American life.
There are people alive today who were born in towns that didn't have electricity, saw computers transform their workplaces midcareer and now use the Internet to access their retirement accounts. It should be no surprise, then, that our relationships and family structures are adapting and evolving along with us.
In the last half of the 20th century, divorce rates rose and marriage rates decreased as women gained access to contraception and joined the labor market in greater numbers, and as life-spans increased. Some of Mr. Fagan's concern is warranted. How do we cope with the uncertainties brought on by changes in technology, social norms and economic conditions? When today's children are ready to raise families, they may be able to pick their baby's height, eye color and sex. But they may have few clues as to which faith (if any) their kids will choose, what country they will work in, or whether they will ever marry.
As a happy uncle, godfather and product of a "broken" urban home who enjoyed the support of lots of surrogate mothers and fathers, I suspect that, going forward, the communities we choose and that choose us will be at least as important as the communities into which we are born. Technology will change, but our basic impulses aren't likely to be any different: We'll have to find each other and help each other. In such quests, cities have often been a good place to start.