Veranda Hotel Mauritius

... (3 star) resort which is largely empty and very nice indeed.  It seems the combination of winter and the GFC has left Mauritius with a dearth of tourists... all to our advantage!  So apart from the sea, the sand, the fish, the tropical ...

... front of the immigration queue they did not seem very keen on the fact that our onward ticket was out of East Africa and not Mauritius like every other package tourist on our flight. We told them about our plan to fly onto Madagascar and then on to East ...

... of what it was quoted in the am...of course I had to listen to his ravings about American's war in Iraq causing petrol in Mauritius to be 1 Euro a litre etc....I kept saying, I didn't vote for him, I didn't vote for him...until he eventually quieted ...

... also took in the sites of the Aquarium, and craft market before, having a small beer, whilst sat on the veranda of cafe espresso. We returned to the hotel about 6 ish, and drank the loverly bottle of sparkling rose the hotel had given us 3 days ago upon ...

...   Not much more excitement occurred for the rest of the stay, just more of the same old routine. So Fiji was over, it was like a second honeymoon (except better than Mauritius). Next stop New Zealand - will it be as good as everyone says it ...