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Hotel Bel Air Victoria

P.O.Box 116 Victoria, Mahe Island, Seychelles Islands

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Failure

A travel blog entry by resiststatusquo

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... to take advice from these little beings. Granted, they didn’t have much of a brain and operate more on instinct rather than choice, but they kept continuing on with their task despite anything that got in their way.



I realized that for so long I let fear of failure, rejection, and embarrassment stopped me from doing activities that interested me. When this was no longer a huge barrier, I let my weight stop me. Then, it was friends that ...

Neither Coordination nor Grace

A travel blog entry by resiststatusquo

... graceful, or coordinated and so I knew it would take a little more effort on my part in order to be successful at this. Hearing this really made me sad and definitely hurt any confidence that I had going into it.

I left the center for home. Sarah and I were going to meet for dinner. I took a shower and waited for her.

We went walking towards the beach to the restaurants. The owner of our guest house told us that places don’t start ...

Look out for the crabs!

A travel blog entry by lindsayandlaura

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... and I started coughing :S My instructor went through the basics with me, such as controlling buoyancy, buddy breathing and emergency ascents. After being a little scared at first I loved it, and am looking forward to my next lesson on monday.

The hospital is going well, chilled out as ever. I was getting a little bored in Paeds as there's not much to do so next week I'm starting ...

Feelin hot hot hot (doo doo doo)

A travel blog entry by lindsayandlaura

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... a lot like Dory from finding nemo (no nemo though :( ) We also saw some pretty scary looking spiky things (ze germans call them "sea eagles"- hope we don't step on one by accident!

Last night we went out with ze Germans next door to the 500-euro-a-night Fisherman's Cove **************tails. The hotel was amazing, but not sure if its worth quite that amount of money! We got to play at being posh guests for a couple of hours but then had to walk back in a thunderstorm, ...

Arriving in Paradise!

A travel blog entry by lindsayandlaura

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... us a quick tour of the "town" victoria before taking us back to our beach cottage. From our bedroom door the beach is about 6 ft away and has an amazing view!
We slept for most of the morning then headed down to beau vallon beach, a 2 min walk from our house, and sunbathed and swam in the sea which is crystal clear and as warm as a bath! Then Katrina cooked us dinner, fresh fish, rice and goat curry (which linds was able to handle ...