June 30, 2026

Bintan Island is our last stop in Indonesia. We have seen alot of this vast country, spread across soo many islands. Again our greetings in the port are so nice and friendly! The stand out of Indonesia is truly the people.

We are here for 4 days and each day the locals have been here at our tender port handing out flowers, dancing and playing music and offering all kinds of tourism help. They don't get cruises here often but they do get a lot of visitors from Singapore to their beach resorts as it is just over an hour via ferry. Singapore just finished their school holidays for 1 month before we got here and this month the Indonesia Children are home on holidays for 1 month. Their next break for 2 weeks is at Christmas. Then they get 1 week around our Easter time. That's it for school holidays. Here the top 3 religions are Muslim, Catholic/ Christian and Buddhist.

Our first day being Sunday a lot of things were closed, so we just went into the Resort area, about a 10 minute taxi drive from Port, called Lagoi Bay, walked around, shopped a little and got some lunch and relaxed along public beach area with lots of locals.

We found an interesting grocery that had an amazing selection of snack foods and sample to try, before buying - so I decided to up my repitore. Generally all natural ingredients, high protein and low, natural sugars, but taste good is my profile.

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By Pat Patrick • November 14, 2026
I don't know why, but I have always made great and lasting friendships with my nail & hair stylist people. Maybe because I see them regularly, we chit chat the whole appointment and share deep confidences quickly and with great respect, it's a safe zone! Stacy from Mauritius was that for me on the Odyssey . She was Spa Manager from the beginning in Belfast and took only two short vacation breaks over the two years.

MAURITIUS - The beautiful island in the Indian Ocean

By Pat Patrick • November 14, 2026
I don't know why, but I have always made great and lasting friendships with my nail & hair stylist people. Maybe because I see them regularly, we chit chat the whole appointment and share deep confidences quickly and with great respect, it's a safe zone! Stacy Derby from Mauritius was that for me on the Odyssey . She was Spa Manager from the beginning in Belfast and took only two short vacation breaks over the two years.

SINGAPORE & DUBAI AIRPORTS

By Pat Patrick • November 13, 2026
I have wanted to see the famed Singapore Changi Airport for years to see the world's largest indoor waterfall. Turns out the waterfall is in a part of the airport, outside the Departure Terminals, so I still have yet to see it! The Terminal does have some interesting architecture and houses a huge shopping mall, with some very high end stores and Christmas decorations are up everywhere, the day after Halloween ( which sadly, they don't celebrate here ).