Social life on Belitung  has been good with a few hardy cruisers passing through to have drinks, food and conversations with.  The local village has an excellent coffee shop and café serving delicious Indonesian food.  The girls serving were surprised when I ordered ‘local hot’ as they are used to serving bland mild food to non-Indonesians. The staff were very kind, helpful and interested in what I was doing. They sort of adopted this old man, on one visit they made me a special soup, it was delicious. I even left a tip which is usually against my religion.