To Africa, for dinner!

Yesterday I had dinner in Seychelles, Africa! And this is the best way to describe the short hop to the former French colony in the Indian Ocean. The flight left Dubai at 10:30 am landing in Mahé Island at 15:00. We all went to the hotel for only 16 hours. When getting there the whole crew, which by surprise was nice, came down and we went to eat at a restaurant in front of the sea for sunset. Took some pictures, walked back to the hotel, had beers at the swimming pool bar exchanging stories about Sultan Qaboos from Oman with the Omani guy and about the Hafik Hariri murders with the Lebanese crew. up to the room (some went to the casino), sleep and today back to Dubai for lunch!

This time I did not take my camera because the weather forecast was showing rain and fog. Of course once we landed it was the most beautiful day ever, with sun, blue transparent waters and a colourful sunset! Too bad! At least some of the crew will send me their pictures by email so I can publish here.

Felipe came back from India. He almost died. Caught salmonella in a Club Sandwich in Varanasi (why would one eat eggs in Varanasi?) and ended up at the hospital there. He told me horror stories about the clinic in India, with coackroaches and a dirty toilet. Plus another clinic in New Delhi. Now he is getting better but he lost 5 kilos and one of his vomiting-diarrhoea attacks lasted for 15 minutes non.stop. Poor thing.

Some engineers came to our flat to fix the ac before summer arrives. It is all a mess now but at least cool. The cleaners are coming tomorrow to clean the whole mess up! I still dont know if somebody steppped with dirty feet over my bed but changed the linen and pillow covers nevertheless.

Tomorrow I am off to Viena, connecting to Frankfurt for a big day on Tuesday! Next post will be about it! Surprise!!!