We circled above the gorgeous island of Mauritius before landing occasionally spotting beautiful stretches of white sand belonging to innumerable 5 star resorts. Most people associate the island with honeymoons and expensive family holidays but we were there for much more important and special occasions. Lucie’s brother Jonathan lives on the island with his wife and newly born baby girl, Jordan. Luc hadn’t seen him or Nat for 2 years, I had obviously never met either of them, and Luc was about to meet her first niece for the first time! I have to admit that I was quite nervous meet [View Full Entry]

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Two days, two very different islands, two very different impressions. Yesterday we arrived ahead of schedule (pronounced "shed-jul") in Port Louis, Mauritius. This used to be a British Colony, but became independent in 1968. The official language is English, but most of the signs and people we ran across spoke French. The shuttle bus from the ship to the "downtown" was a disaster. It took us over half and hour to get to the other side of the harbor (no more than 1/4 mile as the crow flies) where the shopping mall was. Not the center of town at all. It [View Full Entry]

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Its being please to visit IIe Aux Cerf it is relayy a true paradise on earth. The variety in water sports thrill you to be a part of it . Its a small island you can visit it with the help of speed boart and enjoy a lots from para sailing to surfing and last but not the least u can enjoy scuba driving also. with banana boat sailing . [View Full Entry]

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I'm too lazy to upload all of my photos to the various Web sites I belong to, ie Flickr, Facebook, Snapfish, Travelblog, MySpace etc. So here they are, in all their glory -- and in one place. I've just uploaded shots from Darwin to Bali, and then from Bali to Mauritius. http://flickr.com/photos/alexarmitage/sets/ [View Full Entry]

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Arrival in Mauritius Oct. 14, 2008 Port Luis, Mauritius Norfy woke me at 12 a.m. Well, almost 12. a.m.. "Alex. You're up. 10 minutes to 12. Tea will be ready in a few minutes," Norfy said. I was awake, but barely. We were 8 miles east of Mauritius. Skipper James had asked that I wake him with 5 miles to go to our last waypoint, which was effectively the final approach to Mauritius. Norfy was off to bed and another 30 minutes or so and James was awake. I spent the next 2 hours at the chart table plotting our positions, [View Full Entry]

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Reunion After 3 days at sea, we arrived at the Island of Reunion on Monday the 21st of April. It is a French Protectorate and it did not take us long to realize it! We all got loaded on our buses for the various tours and the Taxis decided to call a surprise strike and blocked the exit from the port with cabs so none of the buses could leave. The Cabbies wanted access to the Port and claimed the buses were taking away all their business. After a couple of hours of negotiation, they finally opened the gates. Needless to [View Full Entry]

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Thursday 27th December Tana Airport 13:06 (UK), 16:06 (Madagascar) In approximately 54 minutes I will be heading down the runway and leaving this Fair Isle. A month has passed very quickly and I feel I have done a lot, seen a lot, learnt a lot, and changed a bit. You know, I think I have managed to slow down. Just a little bit, but I am fine with dead time now. There has to be some time in which nothing particular happens and in which you have time to be with your thoughts and yourself. I have never previously been content [View Full Entry]

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Heya! Just giving you guys an update on what I have been doing. I'm finishing my internship this friday! Then i'll have two week's holiday ... PARRRTYYYYYYY! And then Olivier and I will be flying to DownUnder on the 2nd. I'll be stopping at Sydney and Olivier will continue to Melbourne! Now our problem is ... finding accomodation. We're arriving in Oz in 2 weeks and we still don't know where we'll be living! How cool is this! Anyway, back to Mauritius. Here are some photos I stole from Olivier's blog. This is at pointe d'esny. I'll be taking photos [View Full Entry]

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Already 1 month in Mauritius and I laughed so many times about things that happened in mauritius: Look at the photos and comments Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me, otherwise I would've taken a photo! I went to the registrar of companies to get some information. Arrived there (of course it had changed address a didn't think it was a good idea to mention it on their website), and asked for a file. Him : Oui monsieur alors vous cherchez son numero dans la liste, je le note, je prend le dossier, je vous donne un papier, vous [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/3579.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3579.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] RECULEZAlright! Doing my internship in mauritius ... as you can see I work hard! I was in the Dolphin's team ... and we won! Yeah so that was pretty cool. I had to choose between beachvolley, pool, darts, football, volleyball, carom, petanque, golf, putting ... Writing my rapport de stage is going to be great! [View Full Entry]

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