Far, far away
We’ve just had our one year anniversary of arriving in Austria, and celebrated with a vacation from Austria. Not that we don’t like it here, but most of the travels we had over the last year have been in Austria or our neighboring countries. While we saw some amazing things and had some great experiences, we thought it was about time for a real “holiday” where we could just relax and not have to figure out any languages or navigate any strange roads.
Deciding where to go was a little harder. In the US we probably would have hopped on a plane to Hawaii or the Caribbean, but here there are some other interesting choices. We decided to take advantage of our position in Europe. The Maldives are about 24+ hours of travel from most places in the US, but just an 8 hour direct flight from Vienna.
With that decision made, we spent a wonderful week in an over-water villa, eating spicy curries, drinking good wines, soaking up the sun and generally being pampered at Constance Moofushi (and it looks exactly like the pictures on their website). The snorkeling in the Maldives is some of the best that we’ve done. The trips out to the reefs were great, but even from our villa we could watch sharks, rays, and angel fish every day.
Boarding the seaplane to leave on the last day was sad, but just as shocking was the cold weather that awaited us back in Vienna. It’s Winter!
Here’s a view of the villas taken from our kayak:
Getting ready to snorkel and I already have a visitor:
halftime
December 14th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
This looks GORGEOUS! Are they hiring there? Let’s see, I could babysit. I could be a translator for the German tourists. I could babysit the German babies. I could snorkel around counting angel fish…..
December 20th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Sorry, I’ve already counted all the angelfish – in English and Deutsch – and they wouldn’t let me stay. I’ve never seen so many sad people as the plane ride leaving.