the bondi beach club – amalfi style
Janek Gazecki doesn’t surf. He’s a polo guy who writes books and goes fishing, plus he was a lawyer once and now is running a company that wants to do Bondi over.
Janek reckons the joint needs a little European. He’s had enough of the rabble who think they can come down to Bondi without paying someone for the pleasure.
Paying someone like him. The bright ideas boy.
He’s done with alll those misfits from Kings Cross and Bondi Junction, the refugees from Bronte and Tamarama, the unwanted from Coogee and the criminally negligent from Maroubra.
Janek Gazecki says his proposal to rope off a small section of Bondi Beach and charge visitors $80 to enter his Amalfi Beach Club actually democratises Australia’s most famous stretch of sand.
So what’s this mob, fascists?
Like South Bondi. Seen here almost overcome by the thousands of non-paying bludgers who think they own it. These losers won’t get a vote in Janek’s Amalfi Club beach democracy unless they fork out eighty notes for the pleasure. This bloke’s got the Donald Trump syndrome.
Jano reckons there has to be a mob willing to pay him big bucks to diversify the use of the beach. People who want to recline in deckies, drink machiatto, eat bagels and watch waves break.
They’ll have fine dining, he says, but in a casual context. Maybe he means people who want to recline in deckies, drink machiatto, eat bagels and watch waves break while wearing g-strings.
How wrong is this bloke? And why isn’t he working his caper in Queensland?
How does he not know that if his plan ever comes to fruition, the nobs who get to book a deck chair on the first day will be surrounded by a howling mob of degenerate hoboes, losers and miscreants, the real Bondi mainstream. I’m betting Cochran will stump up enough to fly over for it, and Dooley, and the Canadian Kook – these men are not to be trifled with. Red Ted is good for weaponry and Jenkins can record the event for posterity. Yates might even show up. It’ll be like old times.
Then there are the newer generations of Bondi surf rats, the thousands of them. Are they going to be happy to have to walk around a secure roped-off area of the beach they have owned all their lives in order to be first out for the early?
Fuck no !
Euro beach chic? Janek?
The Amalfi babe, yes, but the mogul?
Jano also reckons he’s going to target the locals, well, if the locals are anything like they used to be, they might use the same approach with regard to him. A man should watch his words here.
But there’s more ..
Our man Janek is looking for those who seek a refined cultural and culinary experience embodied by premium beach clubs. This could be a problem seeing he wants to rope off a section of the beach from February to May .. because someone should tell him about how good sand tastes in a lobster morney when there’s a thirty knot southerly howling ashore and blowing your Gucci frock up and over your shoulders.
What old Jano doesn’t really get, is that it’s not his club’s customers who are going to be considered elitist by the locals … locals are the elitists. That’s what Bondi does for you.
So, bugger off, Jano, seriously .. try Camp Cove, or Redleaf Pool.
petebowes.com 
One of your best Pete. It has now been circulated through the ‘Di and to those who have taken up residence off shore.
Many people who don’t understand Bondi have come up with proposals for Bondi….one famous one was the sewerage works at the North end. !!!When will the ever learn.
I’m booking my flight now to be first in line to kick sand in his face. I’ll let Andy take care of the girl. This bloke will never come back!
Bloody brilliant Pete! The old sewer works site might interest the pretentious nob?
Cherie means sweetheart, right? And you’d know the real Bondi Cuisine is a bar of Cherry Ripe and bottle of coke .. maybe a pie or salad roll. Whatever, as long as it went down quickly. Bondi is for catching waves, not eating.
Go away and leave bondi alone I’m 3 generation bondi person. I don’t want it
Let me guess they will Also be asking for a section of the car park so they can have valet parking provided.
This is a joke.
Bondi is free just like every other beach in Australia.
Where is ‘Gellignite Jack Murray’ when we need him.
That bloke’s garage walls had the best array of nudes in the country .. this is 1959 and nude ladies were a big deal, and nobody showed their boobs on the beach, ever .. well, maybe Bea Miles did but nobody dared look.
Click to access Bea_Bee_Miles.pdf
JACK MURRAY,
WHAT A MAN, MY TIMES WITH MURRAY WILL LIVE WITH ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE,HE WAS LIKE MY DAD,BUT BETTER,
HE TAUGHT ME TO WATER SKI,TIPPED ME IN TO A FEW NICE LADIES ,I LIVED HALF A BLOCK AWAY FROM HIS GARAGE,I DROVE HIS CABS FOR YEARS WHILE I WAS A FIREMAN,SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME IN HIS DTYPE JAG,TOLD ME I SHOULD DRIVE A HONDA.
I ALWAYS ADMIRED HIS 59,FURY,I ASKED HIM IF I COULD BUY IT SOME DAY EVEN IF I DIDNT HAVE THE MONEY ,HE WOULD WORK OUT A PAYMENT PLAN FOR ME.
I WENT TO HOSPITAL FOR APPENDIX,HE CAME TO VISIT ME IN THE HOSPITAL AND TOLD ME DONT WORRY ABOUT A RIDE HOME AS THE FURY WAS OUT THE FRONT. I THINK I WAS TOP SHIT IN THAT CAR,SHOULD NEVER HAVE SOLD IT,,,,TODAY THAT CAR WOULD GO FOR 300,00,US
ANY WAY JUST A LITTLE TIME I HAD WITH A GREAT MAN.
I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HE SAID IF YOU DONT SMOKE,DONT DRINK,AND DONT GAMBLE ,YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A BUCK IN YOUR POCKET,
SEX WILL GET YOU SOME DAY,BUT AT LEAST YOU WILL GO OUT WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE
.
I HOPE I HAVENT BORED YOU WITH A FEW STORIES BUT WHAT A LIFE THAT MAN HAD,DROVE FROM ENGLAND ACROSS 8 COUNTRIES,BLEW THE SHIT OUT OF MANY WATER HOLES IN HIS 49 FORD AND WON THE REDEX TRIAL ,
AND LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT,
AND THE ENVY OF ANY MAN.
MANY MORE STORIES ABOUT MURRAYS GARAGE ,BUT CANT BE PUT ON PAPER,I WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY GUYS TO HAVE HAD HIM AS MY MENTOR
SORRY FOR A LOT OF CLEANING UP TO DO ,AS USUAL ,I KNOW YOU WILL CLEAN IT UP, FOR ME,BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAVE DROPED A LINE IN.
SO TAKE CARE BEST ALWAYS . THANKS PETE,
I KNOW STILL HAVE TO USE CAPITAL LETTERS.CANT CHANGE NOW,TO LATE
NOT ENOUGH TIME LEFT,,,BUT WHAT A RIDE
ANDY .C.
Anytime Andy .. nobody writes it like you do …