Mini-break: Bintan Island...

Our little family of three spent the past weekend at Bintan Island and it was just so lovely.

Bintan Island is a very special place. My big sister Bintan was born there + it is where my Mum and Dad's brave and scary refugee boat journey from Vietnam ended back in the late 70s. However the Bintan Island today is a very different place to that which my parents first saw.

Full of golf courses and luxury resorts and being only an hour ferry ride away from Singapore, it makes for a nice little escape destination.

We stayed at Bintan Lagoon which on the whole was very good:

Pros -

It has a ferry terminal right on the resort's doorstep - which means no faffing around with transfers with a little baby.
The rooms have been recently renovated so are nice and as it is an older resort the rooms are also very spacious. There was a big roomy daybed to lounge around on which was also the perfect corner for the little Miss to play and crawl on. A bonus too was the balcony (which was great as we could go out there and read, chat etc) whilst the little one was napping in the room.
Beautiful beach and great pool area - the little one loved her first experience in a swimming pool!
Family friendly - lots of kids around and high chairs in all the restaurants

Cons -

A BIG and probably only con was the food. It was pretty expensive for what it was and although not bad, it wasn't worth writing home about and nothing I would rave about.

But all in all, a lovely way to spend a long weekend away.

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[...] Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. - Lao Tsu Some great words of advice c/o Sarah Wilson's blog (another fantastic blog to read!). As Sarah so wisely says, " The trick, of course, is to know when your bowl is comfortably full, to know when you’ve done enough work. I think you only know that once you step back quietly. In actuality, work is never “done”. There is more we could always do. But we need to realise backing off, releasing control, letting things be for a bit is as essential to creating as doing is." Sometimes we just need to stop and step back for a bit...

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