So orang-utans will be extinct in 20 years. VHS will be out in 3 years. So I reckon my Video of Ever...
So orang-utans will be extinct in 20 years. VHS will be out in 3 years. So I reckon my Video of Every Which Way But Loose could be worth a bob or two soon.
Member since:25.03.2004
Reviews:16
I went to the Maldives in March 2001 and stayed on Meeru Island resort….
Fantastic is the only word for it…
If perfection was attainable go to Meeru or anywhere in the Maldives for that matter it is just paradise.
We took off from Manchester at about 10PM to fly to Gatwick to pick up more passengers and depart.
Having being drinking most of the day (my girlfriend dumped me the night before) I was on the plane and asleep before long not to quick to notice how uncomfortable the chairs were being 6’ 3” though I do get this a lot. Flying air tours it took, just over 10 hours to reach Male international after flying over the Gulf and seeing all the oil rigs an refineries around the Arabian sea (good start)
touching down we were shepherded off the plane by a camper version of Dale Winton who was cabin crew and out onto the tarmac.
When we left Manchester it was 4 degrees, Male however had other ideas 44 was nearer the mark. After melting in the sun customs took no time at all and we herded towards the jetty and onto a boat to travel to Meeru. Now desert island films have absolutely nothing on the Maldives the sea is turquoise and you can see a fair way down and there are tiny islands everywhere dotted about, 1 was just a coconut tree and a bush I recall. After about 50 mins we were told that Meeru was just ahead so we piled to the front of the boat and there it was, home for the next 3 weeks. skip two hours of loading and unloading passengers and belongings I was wandering along the beach ! It was indescribable perfect, clear blue sea, baby sharks cruising the surf chasing sting rays and generally causing trouble, the surf crashing into my feet onto white sand… clear blue skies not a cloud in sight.
If you have not been to the tropics I will let you in on something, there is no tea time, it goes day all nice and sunny then NIGHT it takes about 20 mins to get dark maximum it really shook me up first time as I went to the toilet in the day and came out at night!
Dinner time you make your way to a vast circular building and it is 1 giant buffet serving almost anything you could want sushi, sashimi, fish, spaghetti, pizza, burgers, chips anything although it is mainly focused on fish for obvious reasons.
The first night in my cabin was horrible again the day night divide- during the day the wildlife is ace lizards, geckos, fruit bats etc all happily chirping and getting on with their lives. Night comes and they just go silly everything tries to kill everything else and you hear screams and things dying all the time occasionally you hear a human scream but its best not to think about it.
Most of the days were spent either in the pool, sea or pool bar as it is just to hot to do anything constructive and the island cant really accommodate a shopping centre. I spent most of my time in the sea snorkelling round the island, if you think there is a lot of life on the island look underneath the sea it is rammed with everything you could possibly imagine fish, crabs, lobsters sea-snakes (bit scary the last one , I swam into one and didn’t realise until it started wriggling on my leg, brown shorts time)
One night we went out deep sea fishing and people were hauling the fish in, except me until yes I got a bite, so I started to pull it in and it kept coming up until about 10 metres down it just stopped and I couldn’t move it, then it moved me, again brown trousers time as being pulled into the Indian ocean in the middle of the night by something on the end of fishing line wasn’t a nice experience.
The next day there was a football match between staff and guests and I was central defender and my brother was in goal, staff won 17-3.
The staff were the nicest people you would ever hope to meet always going out of their way just to help with the littlest thing such as opening coconuts for my niece when it fell near her.
In the last few days it got quite bad for me I was depressed missing my now ex-girlfriend and I spent most of the time in a little cove I had found sitting on a fallen palm tree looking out over the Indian ocean, quite fitting really, and possibly the most memorable sight I have ever seen.
Then the weather turned, it had been 40 and sunny for 2 and a half weeks while we were there so it decided to rain, now I know it rains a lot over here but most of us have never seen it really rain, a tropical storm is not a pleasant thing to be caught up in, as I was in the pool I felt it fully.
Then we had to leave 3 weeks had shot by and as we stepped onto the boat to go to male and back home I shed a little tear, it truly was perfection.
Althought he trip was very expensive, the island was an all inclusive resort so the only thing we had to pay for was luxuries and trips.
Best build up your arms aswell before you go because you can't drink the tap water so you have to carry big 3 litre bottles of water everywhere and at the end of the day they are quite heavy.
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Maldives is on the shortlist for honeymoon destinations and it sounds fab! I'm 6ft 5 though so I would have to do something about legroom!!! Great op. marc
ClaireG86 30.03.2004 22:46
it would be lovely to go here one day
dididave 30.03.2004 20:55
We are thinking of going in a couple of years. This sounds like an ideal holiday too me. Dave
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