Woke up early to pen some thoughts on Seychelles. Came down
to the restaurant, picked up a cuppa and went to sit on the desolate dawn beach
with only the soothing sound of the waves to help me with the thinking and
writing. The air is very fresh and a bit salty, a gentle but cold breeze
blowing. Dawn was just breaking, I decided to, at least, get my feet wet. The
water is cooooold. Sent a chill down my spine. Beauty never affected me as much
as it had done on this particular trip. I don’t know if it is the effect of
Seychelles or of the Neuro Lingustic Programming (NLP) course I had just
attended with Sue Knight where I was told to open up my senses. Probably was
both. I could hear the birds chirping, the wind blowing softly as it seemed to
have caressed my very soul! I spent close to half an hour just staring at the
hypnotic and mesmerising ocean in the serenity that surrounded me while the leaves of the trees, under which I was sitting, were being gently ruffled by the wind.
We had bought a CD from Sue Knight called :The Discover your
Excellence Coach” and Meera asked me to listen to it. We spent the next couple of
hours talking about the excellence that we see in all the people that are
closest to us. I had said things that I had never even thought of before and it
amazed me. M did the same too and, I think, it got us closer. We got
to hear each other’s perspectives and made me realize that there are so many
things that I don’t know about M and it was a great learning experience.
We decided to have coffee and went to the glorious pool. I
never knew that a pool could make me feel the way I did. Made me feel
liberated, free. M tried to teach me swimming and she got me to hold my breath
underwater and to float with my stomach in the water, without holding anything.
That felt like being weightless. I was floating! Can you believe that? I mean,
with my weight? It felt so good, so relaxing, so powerful, like I could do
anything! I am so scared of water, and I don’t know why. I mean, I tried to learn
swimming when I was like 10 or so but never did and somehow ended up having a
mortal fear of water. So to be able to float in the water was priceless! Thank
you M for teaching me to do that.
Anyway, as it was the end of year and the tourism traffic, I
guess, peaked and so we did not get a car to hire here at Mahe. M was
disappointed and I wasn’t! We decided that we will spend time on the beach
right outside and chill in the pool and see where tomorrow takes us. We took
some towels, went to the beach and there were these 2 touts that we struck a
deal with. One of them was to take us on a glass bottomed boat and the other
for a tour on the 31st December of the Mahe island on the 1st
January 2012. Since we had decided, we thought we would as well enjoy the rest
of the day.
We had bought a CD from Sue Knight called :The Discover your
Excellence Coach” and Meera asked me to listen to it. We spent the next couple of
hours talking about the excellence that we see in all the people that are
closest to us. I had said things that I had never even thought of before and it
amazed me. M did the same too and, I think, it got us closer. We got
to hear each other’s perspectives and made me realize that there are so many
things that I don’t know about M and it was a great learning experience.
Had lunch at Le Canton, the Chinese joint at Berjaya Beau
Vallon and had fried rice. They gave us a green chilli chutney (maybe a sauce), that M and me ate with gusto as the two of
us really wanted to eat something spicy and both of us overate. It was really
funny to see M pack food! How the two of us were laughing, we asked for the green
chilly thingy at least 4 times and by the the 5th time, the waitress
just got the bowl of the substance, that they seemed to have prepared for the
whole day, and dump it on the table. We were just laughing at ourselves. It was
quite silly.
After the copious amount of food we ate, the only thing that
we could do was to get a siesta. We went up to sleep and fell asleep watching
the TV (thankfully had more channels on than the one at Praslin: that had 1
channel, for God’s sake!), when I was just about to fall asleep and then
someone knocked on the door like the goddamn heaven was falling on us. It was the
housekeeping for changing something and that killed my sleep.
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| Aida, the talkative mermaid, from Northern England, living in Abu Dabhi |
We decided to have coffee and went to the glorious pool. I
never knew that a pool could make me feel the way I did. Made me feel
liberated, free. M tried to teach me swimming and she got me to hold my breath
underwater and to float with my stomach in the water, without holding anything.
That felt like being weightless. I was floating! Can you believe that? I mean,
with my weight? It felt so good, so relaxing, so powerful, like I could do
anything! I am so scared of water, and I don’t know why. I mean, I tried to learn
swimming when I was like 10 or so but never did and somehow ended up having a
mortal fear of water. So to be able to float in the water was priceless! Thank
you M for teaching me to do that.
Aida, remember her, she came over again and made me feel
miserable. She is all of 6 years old and can swim like a mermaid in the water.
She is the one of the most adorable kids I have ever met, but she made me feel
really inadequate. So I made a promise to myself: learn swimming in 2012. I
hope that I live up to that promise!
Phew! What a day!!!
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| Orange coconuts in Seychelles |
2 comments:
The beauty of Seychelles is certainly unique - it affected me just the same, and I hadn't had any courses before!
Next time you visit Mahe, I recommend that you also explore the less touristic places (outside Beau Vallon and Victoria) like: Anse Major, the national park, and the more southern beaches.
Dream Seychelles Holidays: Posts coming.. I did visit them.. Seychelles is jsut so beautiful that 1 trip doesn't do it any justice. If I ever have a choice, I'd like to live there and show them around Seychelles. It took my breath away!
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