Indonesia: Bintan, Club Med

To supplement the photos of Billy the Acrobat below, here are a few others from our long weekend in Bintan the other week.

I've mentioned before on the blog, Billy has a passion for sushi/sashimi - but we had no idea his tastes would stretch to raw baby octopus (and for breakfast too).

I went with him to choose breakfast from the buffet - expecting to return with a bowl of rice krispies as usual, but no, he went for the marinated octopus. Not for the squeamish. It was really disconcerting and somewhat stomach churning seeing him play with the food (much as a cat would a mouse) - dangling the tentacles; touching the eyes; opening up the beak and peering in. Just as he bit into the top of the poor creature's head, he said something like "Dad, this is almost too interesting to eat". Quite deft he is with chopstix!

Club Med was/is like a glorified CentreParc - but very well set up for kids. The Bintan location was great too -- slightly jungliefied (see baby praying mantis which dropped onto my shoulder) and the beach was fab.

M