First up - the Seychelles. We went to the Seychelles for our anniversary, and it was our first trip after my move to London. This meant that we had to find a place to board Riley, so Riley went on her first trip, to Wales. We haven't used the boarding facility since, so I am just going to leave it at that. Oh, but I will mention that when she came back, her progress report stated she needed to lose weight, amongst other (behavioral) issues. Rude!
Anyhoo, the Seychelles were amazing. We flew threw Qatar to get there, and I would not recommend spending too much time in the Doha airport. Although if memory serves, they are building a new airport, or perhaps have already finished it. We were fortunate enough to spend a combined...8? 10? hours in the airport, and I can say they were the least exciting hours of my life.
See how busy the airport was? See all the people? No? We asked about the logistics of leaving the airport and going into Doha for a few hours, but were asked in reply, "why?" The woman at the help desk was flummoxed as to why we would want to leave the airport and go sightseeing in Doha. She obviously wasn't the best ambassador for her fair city. I would have liked to have seen the city, and the new Islamic art museum, and tried to find a Coffee Bean (hello, the MOST important part - going to a Coffee Bean. Forget the art, I wanted an ice blended). But, no. DENIED. So we saw Doha from afar.
Yep, that's Doha. One of our layovers was overnight, and that was when the airport was jumping! Many flights land during the over night hours (due to the heat I am sure) and so the airport was full of people at 3am. Not so much at 2pm. When we landed in the middle of the night I think the temperature outside was something like 35 Celsius (about 95 F). Toasty! But on to the good stuff.
Oh, that beach! It was gorgeous, and empty, and had soft sand, and turquoise water. It was perfect! We had pretty good weather. A bit of wind, not much rain. It was hot, but not too hot. We spent a LOT of time under an umbrella on that beach. But, our room was so nice, it was hard to leave it, so we spent a lot of time there as well.
Each room has its own pool, so we had the chance to leave a lot of footprints going back and forth from our private pool to a lounge chair. And our room afforded a great view of the sunsets. I tried to take a picture of the sunset each night, and some were truly stunning.
We really didn't do too much, but we did go into the main town at my urging. Dave would have been happy to sit on the beach, and then sit some more, but I made him go. Seychelles is a very small country, the population is only about 86,000, so the capital, Victoria, is not very big. We walked around the market, I bought some vanilla beans grown on the islands, and we had lunch in what was described as pretty much the best restaurant in town. And it was...fine. Then we retreated back to our little part of the island and resumed our relaxation. Overall a great week, and a wonderful anniversary, AND a happy birthday for Dave. He turned 26. That's what he'd want me to say.
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