12th November 2007
Hello there
Having a great time. Were a wee bit worried when the rain started last night and poured on right through to mid morning. Thought we were gonna be those holiday makers taking videos of the rain before the cyclone hit. But no, it cleared up and was hot enough for another day by the pool. Today we had some of the complimentary celebrate love package (you get it if you book a suite for 7 nights and it is an excellent incentive) so a full body aromatherapy massage on the beach in the afternoon and a 6 course gourmet dinner served by the beach or on our balcony. We went for our balcony as there were 3 other couples by the pool and we like to see what's on the plate we are eating from. The table was decorated with flowers and it really felt very special indeed, right down to the guitarist performing in the midst of our billowing chiffon drapes in the door way to the balcony. It was yummy food and the best steak I've ever had in my life. That was unexpected as outside the hotel the restaurants are very shabby chic and you feel you are being fed by someone's grandpa while you sit in the middle of a flea market when plastic tables and chairs of a bygone era are going cheap. The town of Pereybere is not the exclusive retreat of the jet set I had somewhat imagined given the price of Mauritius holidays, but bloody relaxing and hot all the same which will do us fine and the hotel is fab. It does feel like a second fake honeymoon.
There's a huge amount of other free stuff at the hotel but as we're not water lovers we won't make use of it. The service is top notch and we particularly like it when they suddenly turn up at your sun bed with fried battered cod nibbles and a Mai Tai or Bergamot tea with cake. They do laundry for free which is good as the one pair of summer trousers that still fit my new ginormous backside were stained with insect repellent that had leaked in the luggage. I should have sprayed it on the plane as within 1 hour I got bit by something that gives me an allergic reaction and I now sport an itchy golf ball lump on my ankle.
Cockroach type things keep falling on me too. Had the second one just before the branch fell on me (well twigs really) as I was under the tree being massaged. The first was as sat down in a restaurant ready to enjoy the sega dance show. The beach is tiny but lovely with rocks and sailing boats in turquoise water to die for. Shame you can't walk anywhere on the beach though. There is piped music in the bathroom which is supposed to be the same relaxing stuff you can hear under water in the pool but not sure where the shake rattle rock and roll number fitted into that zen music experience.
Three things are weighing heavily on my mind and trying to ruin the holiday for me. First is the lizard living on our ceiling that comes out at night - I really don't do reptiles. Second is the dead kitten on a bit of waste ground right outside the hotel which has broken my heart and third is the skinny cat in the hotel grounds that I keep buying food for as I don't want him to go the same way but what happens when I leave makes me feel sad too.
Cockroach type things keep falling on me too. Had the second one just before the branch fell on me (well twigs really) as I was under the tree being massaged. The first was as sat down in a restaurant ready to enjoy the sega dance show. The beach is tiny but lovely with rocks and sailing boats in turquoise water to die for. Shame you can't walk anywhere on the beach though. There is piped music in the bathroom which is supposed to be the same relaxing stuff you can hear under water in the pool but not sure where the shake rattle rock and roll number fitted into that zen music experience.
Three things are weighing heavily on my mind and trying to ruin the holiday for me. First is the lizard living on our ceiling that comes out at night - I really don't do reptiles. Second is the dead kitten on a bit of waste ground right outside the hotel which has broken my heart and third is the skinny cat in the hotel grounds that I keep buying food for as I don't want him to go the same way but what happens when I leave makes me feel sad too.
Today we witnessed a bollywood movie being made in the restaurant just along from us on the sea front. First we thought it was someone's dad with a microphone showing off but then they were shouting the universal language of "silence on set and action". Tomorrow we may get the courage to expand our horizons and see the next town and then maybe the capital, and by the end of the week we'd have had a sight seeing day to the highest and prettiest points of this small island.
So I wonder how things are at work on the Basingstoke Riviera. Andrew has told me I am not allowed to QC my new website. Finding it very easy to sleep a lot and do nothing at all except make fun of the guest who looks like Rod Hull as we wonder what he's done with Emu and laugh at how every time a fish leaps out of the coy pond it sounds like someone doing a big poo. Did I really write that?
Must go - the mossies are coming. Aren't holidays great!
very best
Marta (and Andrew) xxx
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