Category: Holidays

Keep Diving

It wouldn’t be a holiday if we didn’t manage to get some scuba diving in and so this morning we were picked up and taken to Belle Mar to the nearest dive school at the...

Back To The Beach

Back To The Beach

After yesterday’s travels, today we’ve spent the majority of the day on the beach, doing very little. If by very little you can include, reading, drinking, snorkelling, frisbee-ing, eating, drinking and drinking.

Lions, Louis And Lilly Pads

Cyclone Bejisa has diverted away from Mauritius and has hit Reunion an island a couple of hundred kilometers away. While the full force of the cyclone has caused widespread damage there, Mauritius remains unscathed. The...

Things Are Looking Up

Things Are Looking Up

Woke up this morning to some sunshine as the cyclone looks to have passed us by and headed towards Reunion Island a few hundred miles away. We headed down to the beach but the day...

Bad Weather Continues

The rains hit hard early this morning as the cyclone got closer to the island. We were woken at 6am as the winds built up and it stayed this way for all of the morning,...

2014 Gets Underway

2014 Gets Underway

Prologue: The Wife and I have come to Mauritius to celebrate our anniversary and New Year… After a lie in following last night’s New Year’s celebrations (which contained silly hats and party blowers) we woke...

Fun In Marsa Alam

We’ve just returned from a fortnight’s holiday in Marsa Alam and what a cracking holiday it was too! The flights were a bit crap though. Five and a half hours with no entertainment and food...

Nearly Time To Come Home

Tonight’s our last night at the Lamaya as we’re heading home tomorrow afternoon. We’ve had a good time while we’ve been here, done some scuba diving, snorkelling, been pampered in the spa and ventured out...