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Hi all - we arrived back in Gan yesterday after just under 3
days passage back from Chagos. It was
fairly smooth sailing overall but the first 24 hours was not too much fun. We are filling our faces on the things we
have been missing out on - veggies are on the list but we confess so is coke
and fries!!
It seems strange being back in what we amuse ourselves by
calling "civilisation". Don't get
me wrong, Maldives is a beautiful place,
but is only caters for basic needs. That
said, it really makes us think how generally we are so "over catered"
in the so called real world. Sure, there
are things we miss, but not really very much we couldn't do without. We had our first walk in tarmac yesterday
after 1 month, which felt odd using leg muscles again. Oh!! and we shook hands
with the Maldivian president! He was on
an atoll tour and was meeting and greeting on the street right next to the cafe
where we were feeding our faces on cokes and fries!! The locals were saying the old president
would not have done this kind of walk about so it was quite an event for them.
We have motorbikes (ok scooters) booked for this
morning. Bryan is just making toast on
the bbq (one of his cravings that needed satisfying!). We leave Gan in about 3 days and will start
our tour of the Maldives islands. Hopefully we will have wifi most of the way for ease of blogs. Bryan has sorted through the pics so expect
some photographic evidence real soon....Helen
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