Dream Wish Do: This is Seychelles

Seychelles 12th of March.

Departure. The line to our flight was nothing that I thought of. I was picturing myself with Cathrin and a bunch of millionaires on their way to expensive paradise. Not really. Tourists like anyone else, a lot of older people, lot of couples. We were certainly the only swedes.

Arriving in paradise…Mahé. The door of the airplane opens and I can already feel the sweat dripping from my back. A bit tired and humble the air hits us. This humid, warm, 30 degree (def feels like 35) air is shocking! Coming from ice cold Sweden. Paradise, tropical island, we are here. Unfortunately our bags were not. 300SR each as a compensation while waiting (15Euros). As I never experienced this before I could not imagine what could happen to the bag and of course think the worse possible, but hey we were happy anyways we finally arrived. All our stuff, all our books for the study, yes the fear strike me once or twice but no worries.

My first meeting with the seychellois turned out to be very positive. Very organized people. Diandra, from Seychelles Tourism Academy (sent by Sinha, our supervisor in the Seychelles and the Tourism Board) waited for us with a sign with our names. She led us through fast track and we felt like two VIP researchers. Robin, owner of the house we are staying in was also at the airport waiting for us. To our surprise we got upgraded to a 2 floor house, amazing view overlooking the Indian Ocean, almost in tears and chocked of the result of our achievements. Air condition- we can´t live without u. I remember when we were discussing the budget version of the houses, without aircon, that would have been our death.

Two days later we found out that the bag was on its way. I didn´t mind walking around in my bikini and surfers shorts for another couple of days that I luckily by plan left in my hand luggage, but maybe not the best clothes for the office…lol. Check out the huge papaya!

We live in Au Cap. A heavy bus drive to the office in Victoria made us choose to work from home a couple of days a week. The bus drive is as exhausting as a 40 minute sauna. At night its gets very dark here, and there is no lights so we´re kinda forced to stay inside. On our side of the island, the “countryside”, far away from deserted but not many tourists in sight, is in the southern parts of the island of Mahé.