JanelGarvin

Well we had almost zero Internet access on the cruise, and now we're back on land in Mahe island at a lovely hotel, which does have access in the lobby. All in all this blog hasn't worked out too well, but maybe I can send some more thoughts, impressions from Paris where we'll be spending the weekend on the way home. Can say it's been a wonderful experience, and I'm sorry we couldn't shar it better. On to Paris!... read more

It was an epic adventure getting here. First an overnight flight from Paris to Mahe, then we took a 40 minute ferry from Mahe island to Praslin, and barely made the connection to another ferry to La Digue, but we made it. The island is incredibly beautiful but hot and humid. We're getting used to it, taking lots of dips on the beautiful sea. Around here there's a reef just offshore so no waves to speak of, just beautiful clear turquoise water. Yesterdat we got a couple of bikes and explored the northern end of the island and today we'll go sout to see the best beaches. Yesterday we also walked a c pipe of kilometers to A nse Source Argent, which is exactly the beach I have always wanted to see in person. It is ... read more

Well I made a post with lots of details only to have it disappear. But we're not doing much right now, just relaxing, trying out the new (to us) neighborhood of St Germaine de Pres. Hopefully this blog will get better when we go to Seychelles. This is a new area in Paris for us and we were surprised to find its a real epicenter for sporting fervor. Last nigh France played Romania and the streets were totally clogged with yelling cheering people. Even though many of the sidewalks were full of trash from the garbage strike. This afternoon we went for our meeting with Dino, our new EMEA sales rep. We went to a lovely restaurant and shared a platter of cold seafood. The prawns and langustino and lobster were great but we found the ... read more

Waiting for the car to come pick us up on our epic adventure. The fifteenth is our 20th anniversary and we'll be on the island of La Digue in the Seychelles, which as you probably know is in the middle of the Indian Ocean about 2 hour flight from Madagascar (not that we're going to Madagascar) and is officially part of Africa. La Digue is a place I have always dreamed of going, so this is a special place, occasion, and trip. Seychelles is a ten hour plane ride from Paris and Paris is a 10 hour ride from SFO, so of course we'll be getting off and hanging out a couple of days in our favorite city. We have an employee in Brussels now who will come to Paris Saturday to meet with us and ... read more

Yesterday after breakfast at the Sultanhan hotel, while Janel busied herself with email from the office, I wrote a blog entry. It was a nice long blog about our day in the Galata district. My head was a little pressured from one too many Rakis from the night before. But I was happy with my entry, and looking forward to publishing it, and showing my best zingers to Janel. I hit “save,” and was shown a message “UNAUTHROIZED ACCESS.” Backspace. Where’s my text? This bleepity bleep travelblog site had timed out, while I left my computer on over night, and now had just dumped all my work in to the ether. It couldn’t be recovered by backspace, in history, in auto saved text…it was gone. Steam started coming out my ears! An hour of work down ... read more