Nalahiya Hotel Male

... Trivandrim to head to North of India where it is 41 degrees at the minute min sounds hot especially when Cocoa Island is a manageable 30 at the minute - hey we are not complaining but the 60 sunblock is definitely out!! Take care everyone i saw the weather is pretty good in London so am sure everyone is getting excited about a good summer miss everyone lots keep the updates coming and speak to you all soon. lots of Love Ash & Alex xxx

... coming up.... I was just walking over to the dessert bit (serves me right for being greedy!) and something went thud right beside me, looked around and there was a bloody grass snake sitting there which had just fallen from the thatched roof. Well I almost died!! Think I maybe had a minor heart attack! It was tiny but that's not the point, it was a bloody snake!! It quickly scurried away out of the restaurant and that ...

... i vinden och blommor i alla möjliga färger växte överallt på ön. Skimrande turkost hav, klarblå himmel och vyer som fick oss att kippa efter andan. Första natten fick vi sova på en båt eftersom det inte fanns något rum ledigt än. Som kompensation fick vi en heldagsdagsutflykt till tre andra öar en annan dag. När kvällen kom somnade vi ovaggade med näsan ut genom ett fönster och vinden smått fläktande i ansiktet. När jag slog upp ögonen morgonen därpå hade jag världens ...

... were booked into an alternative island. The Seaplane journey was spectacular - blue skies, crystal clear water, gazing at the stunning scenery of tiny little islands dotted ...

... stretching out into the sea from the island with the watter villas sitting off the side. At one end of the island they have also added a new restaurant. This provides the same service as the original restaurant, but negates the need to walk half way across the island every meal time. Despite the size of the island the large number of guests it can accommodate the feeling is still very remote. You don't feel ...

... echoes (boat and buoy marking the end of the net). An anxious night, pitch black as the moon didn't rise until 5am, but OK then at 10 am we saw 3 large wooden boats full of people altering course to cross our track. We continued sailing, and they turned out to be a type of India/Yemen ferry, everyone waving, Next night Pathfinder confirmed more floating nets, and we spotted 2 pairs of echoes, (nets?) diverted round them, but as we did so under full sail heard an eerie ...

... agrees to everything, so open ended questions are essential or you end up down any road you suggest. So, I finally end up at a Fuji camera shop and they say they can burn my pics to DVD for me (DVD can hold thousands of pics vs. a few hundred on one CD). An adorable 16 year old girl, Shivana, helps me. She is so sweet, professional, thorough checking everything and just overall a superstar helpful gal. The process to burn the pics takes a long time and in meantime I ask what a ...

... Jesse to see the sharks as close up as possible but how close I'm not sure! So our time here has been wonderful. The kids and I listed a number of things that we will miss about Maldives - interesting since we did this after three weeks here but in the reverse - what we missed about home. It's been good for all of us. Doug and I talked about lessons learned - how we could approach it differently again. Once you are in a place for a couple of months you know ...

... testing or ginger here) to combat that problem. And - research the distance myself and prepare myself and the kids accordingly. We went to Paradise Island Resort the day after the Red Cross expedition so I wasn't 100% but did okay. It was windy and rough so snorkelling was a little more difficult. We experienced the first "cool" pool in Maldives. It is usually hard to get refreshed by jumping in the pools since they normally feel like a tepid bath. We watched the sharks swimming ...

... that I didn't know was so deeply engrained into my inner consciousness. But the cars, oh the cars... the environmentalist in me sees this island as having had the potential to be the perfect environmental utopia... 2kmx1km it could have been the most perfect town to develop into a pedestrian only capital city. I believe it is faster to walk somewhere than it can be to drive. Everything is so close, and yet the island is packed with cars. It ...