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A holiday at home

WHO LIVES HERE? Jodi and Allan Lawrence with their son Levi (13) and dog, Jackson Brown

WHERE Fish Hoek, Western Cape

SIZE 155m2

Just days before flights out of SA were banned in 2020, Jodi Lawrence caught a plane to Bali, Indonesia in a bid to save her furniture and decor import business. She didn’t know then that she’d spend the next two years there, as Covid-19 gripped the globe.

She and her son Levi (13) luxuriated in the laid-back island lifestyle, but Jodi also spent time working and learning all she could (and as much as Covid restrictions would allow) from the Indonesian manufacturers for her online store, Eight Degrees South. Her business partner and

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