Mauritius - Eat, swim, click, repeat
In my Norway blog I concluded saying “If your idea of a vacation is lying by the beach sipping a cocktail, this one's not for you.” For this blog I start by saying if that wasn’t for you, Mauritius most definitely will be. Mark Twain famously said, “Mauritius was made first and then heaven; and heaven was copied after Mauritius”. I now have no reason to disagree! When a week long Eid holiday was suddenly declared in the region, we were desperate to get a respite from the heat. We had never been to Mauritius and a quick check with flights and hotels revealed that doing this with such short notice was easily feasible. This trip was going to be a number of firsts for us – We were travelling to the Southern hemisphere for the first time. A six-and-a-half-hour flight and no time difference! Now that was a first. Travelling all over one longitude was an interesting first in the journey. This was also the first time we planned and trave