It’s just another beach.
I’ve got the flu. Life sucks sometimes.
As a proponent of the “two-sides-to-everything” philosophy, I offer the up-side of things here: thongs abound on the white sand.
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Love the photo of the tea cups on the wooden bench. Shame about your flu though.
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Sue, yeah, teacups, that was my view at breakfast. And right…shame about the flu! And I’m the kind of guy who “never gets sick”! Must be some kind of karma? At least it wasn’t a shark attack in the surf.
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Hello Badfish! Have missed you! Sorry to hear you got the flu…hope you get better soon. On a positive note, that’s not a bad view to recover… Blissful.
Have a good time there and when you come back, tell us all the tales. I can see some thong’s stories building up. Hopefully no more ghekos.
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One of the highlights of this year has been to have crossed paths with you on the blogosphere.
Cheers to more bridges, and to your outstanding stories!
Happy holidays and a great start of 2016!
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Lucile, man I’ve missed you! And right, if you have to have the flu, this is probably the BEST place in the world to recuperate. There is a thong story, but sadly no geckos here, wonder why?
And I must admit, having met and bantered with you has definitely been one of the highlights of 2015 for me, too. And finally, I’m the one DOING something for a change.
One sad thing about this trip, there are no bridges here, only ferry boats.
Marvelous holidays to you, too! 2016? What happened to the 90’s…where did they go so quickly?
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You left me almost teary! 😘 thank you for the lovely words, the best good-Badfish ever!
And I’m so happy that you’re doing things too! I’m not alone anymore.
Hope you’re feeling better to enjoy paradise and start the New Year strong as ever.
I’ll make sure to shoot some bridges during my vacations, ok? And you keep shooting thongs….
The 90’s! Bastards! Gone in a sec!
Take care and have a great time!
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We could do a book and title it: “Bridges and Thongs.”
And yeah, the 90’s…where did they freakin go? I think I’m still missing a year or two out of the 80’s.
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[…] could enjoy. I have always featured the bridge I most love in my neighborhood, but as I promised to BadFish, only next year it will be back here. You can still enjoy it at the header image of my blog, […]
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Well, if you’re going to have flu, I can think of worse places to have it than an island paradise (my living room, for example). Don’t give flu to any of those little fish now. They can’t cope. Their handkerchiefs get soggy.
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You are right! I wouldn’t want to be in Timbuktu with the flu, or the North Pole in winter. And I think hanging out and watching time pass was a good thing overall. The fish didn’t seem to mind my sneezing and snorting and clearing my nostrils in their home, but right, soggy handkerchiefs!!
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Although being in Timbuktu and having the flu does sound like it could be the basis of a highly amusing limerick.
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But what rhymes with tu?
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Hope you’re at the end of the flu and not the beginning. Get well BF … it looks lovely out there 🙂
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The beginning started the day after my flight. I’m blaming it on someone on that airplane…such wicked air in those things, just circulating again and again in there. But yeah, a lovely place to get well in! Clear skies, clear water.
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Get better soon, so that you can truly enjoy paradise, Badfish! Merry Christmas and happy holidays, in those beautiful surroundings!
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Thanks, GF! I think I’m enjoying the place as much as I can without riding the banana boat and windsurfing and kite boarding like some of the others here are doing. Snorkling is about all I care to do. And it’s cool.
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Well, what ever you get to do, enjoy! 😀
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I’m going to eat gluten
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ha! Well then, enjoy 😛 I’ll stick to my delicious gluten-free goodies 😀
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Maybe Not…I think I’ll be sticking to fresh fruits, nuts, and maybe a mug of coconut juice.
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Yum! Look coconuts! Happy New Year, Badfish – may it be a wonderfully adventurous one for you! 😀
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Thanks, it’s started out that way so far…You have a GOOD year, too.1
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Oh my, that water is so crystal clear! Hope you feel better soon & are able to enjoy the beautiful place.
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Crystal clear is exactly right. I’ve never seen the ocean that clear, and I’ve seen the ocean in a lot of places. I’m actually enjoying the place by just sitting and watching and photographing!!
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PART of me feels bad for you! Really, get well soon and enjoy that paradise!
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What exactly is it in that first sentence that I detect? PART of you feels bad. Let me think about it. But right, if you gotta get the flu, you might as well get it here, as opposed to hiking the Annapurna Trail, eh?
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Exactly! Hope you have recovered and are blissfully enjoying that incredible beauty.
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Thanks! I’m not quite up to “blissful” yet, but life moves on, we do what we can, and blow our noses along the way.
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You have got the flu and you hate beaches. 😦 Maybe you missed this little info about the Maldives in your non-planning mode.
In Slovenia we don’t have (natural) beaches, going there tomorrow. Maybe you missed the little info in your About me that you made it into my top ten blogs of this year. If you believe it and let it, this info alone can cure you right now and you can finally wear those thongs.
Much love and luck and joy and crabs (and crap!) and all things spontaneous and magical in the coming year.
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I know…flu on a beach…life just isn’t quite fair some times. One of my favorite memories was skinny dipping at night at some “beach” in Slovenia (when it was Yugoslavia)…it had many piers jutting out into the water. I can’t remember the name of it.
And hey, thanks for the Top Ten Blog shout out!!! LOVE it! I’m honored. I have not been blogging, nor responding since I’ve been “planning” this trip and then on it. But I’m thinking about you!!
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Hihihi, Portorož! Port of roses. Right! I’ll be in Piran, which is the (“boring”) neighbour, in a few hours. Who knows, maybe we’re gonna do a repeat one day. 😀 Be well!
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Is that the name of the beach-place with piers?
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Exactly: Portorož, or Portorose in Italian. I’m in Piran now. You might have been here too, a very old beautiful town. No beaches. Happy new year!
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Got it!! No, I don’t think I was there in Piran. Are living there, or just visiting now?
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Visiting, parents have a place.Just now the bora wind is clearing out the fog. It’s gonna be crunchy cold but clear.
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Ah, cruchy cold…I remember those days in places where there was a thing called “cold.” Cold here is more like luke warm. But hot is not. Hot is hot.Burn bottom of your feet hot.
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Hey BF!
I met a guy from the Maldives. Nice fellow. Goes to school here.
There is a foot of snow here, all the roads are closed, I’m stuck in a city instead of my beautiful home in the mountains, and I crave warm ocean. No flu, though, thankfully.
Enjoy floating. Kiss the ocean for me, but don’t inhale.
Have fun even though it’s just another beach.
Mary
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A foot of snow!?! Ugh. 😦 How soon till you can get home?
Be safe!
Hugs!
Fim
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Yeah…a foot of snow! Can’t imagine (at this moment).
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WOW, a guy from the Maldives living in a foot of snow. I bet that is as cool for him as being in the Maldives is for the rest of us who like snow, but dislike the “dealing” with it. All the people I’ve met here are “nice.” Real nice. Smiling. And hey, I actually am floating in the ocean. And it’s odd because for most of my life I couldn’t float. And I guess I can have fun on any beach!!
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Sorry to hear you’re ‘mal’ in the Maldives. Hope you feel better soon!
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HA! Mal in the Maldives, right!! I reckon I’ll just trudge on through. I guy has to do what a guy has to do.
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The Maldives just went on our list. Get well soon. Thongs in Australia (and Britain too I think) are what you call flip-flops – not nearly as interesting as the North American meaning of thongs 🙂
Alison
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LOL *waving*
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I’m not sure you want to come all this way for white sand beaches, crystal clear water and mandatory Xmas Eve dinners. But it is beautiful. Thongs in North America are also flip-flops. They gave me a free pair here. So what do the Aussies call a bathing suit thong?
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sorry about the flu but hoping some beach love is re-awakened!
I was to attend a fancy Maui beach wedding once which required “formal beach wear”. Found an appropriate dress but not shoes so shopped several high-end boutiques in Carlsbad, CA asking sweet young sales girls if they sold “beaded thongs”, meaning, of course, the shoe variety. Hey, I thought a flip flop with beads could pass for dressy!
The embarrassed looks on the faces of these young women, thirty years (as well as pounds) my junior, were confusing…but priceless once I figured out what they were picturing as they looked at me (and not at my feet!)
Thanks for the vicarious visit to the beach.
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MAN!! THAT is funny story. You should write a post about it. Or…just use this comment all by itself. You live/lived in Carlsbad? I used to live in San Diego…eons ago. I know just what those salesgirls eyes might look like! So…did you find beach-chic foot thongs for the wedding?
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Crap, you’re in the Maldives! Double crap that you’re sick! How did you end up going to such a fab place? I think I missed that post where you mentioned about your next plans after Bali. Or was this a surprise? Anyhow, I hope you feel better quick! New Year is a-coming and you wanna partaaay! 🙂
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I know…double crap! Yeah, I’ve been planning (or rather not planning) this trip for a while now. I’ve been wanting to come here for years, just to see what all the fuss and hype was about. So I did! That’s about the extent of my planning. I’m planning on being in India for New Years Eve! Partaaay on Indian Style!!
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That’s more like you!!! India it shall be for New Year. In the meantime…do you like the richness and luxuriousness of Maldives? 😉 Im sure the oceans and beaches are gorgeous!
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I have to admit, glamour is glamorous, and I could get used to it very easily. If it’s beauty you want, this is one good spot.
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See? I told you, don’t plan to write and something shows up even if it is a “little” blurb.
I see that even with the flu, nothing rings your chimes more than a beautiful body in a thong. The non foot variety I presume or why mention them? Funny how age doesn’t change our appreciation for a nice body. No picture though?
Blame it on the flu. LOL
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Yeah, good thing I didn’t “plan” to write, I would have disappointed myself! But a blurb, I could handle. I can’t not take a photo if I see one, flu or no flu! So I had them lying about, ready to load onto the post. Ring my chimes with the flu…I think a bowl of Mom’s chicken soup could ring my chimes. But yeah, as they say, old but not dead! And some old geezer can’t just point his camera at a young thing in a thong, you know. What are people going to think…reality?
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When I was a young, sexy thing, I remember tourists asking dad for permission to have their pictures taken with me. Dad thought it was funny, he figured they’d go home and brag that they spent time with all these pretty girls. LOL An old geezer doesn’t have to explain anything. Everyone knows it’s just wishful thinking. ROFLOL So sorry BF, I am so there with you!
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Oh, I don’t know. It just doesn’t seem like Christmas unless somebody has the flu. This year it’s a nephew. I’ll email his mother with a note to turn the TV to the G-string’d Beach Babes channel. I’ll tell her it’s a remedy I read on the internet.
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HA! You might be right about that…somebody always has the flu somewhere, and usually at Xmas! And I think you are on to something with that cure! Thank god for the internet!!
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Looks warmer than it does here (8-deg F) . . . but we don’t have the flu. Don’t know which is the better deal.
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Well, the weather is fairly wonderful here, especially for December, where some places have a bunch of snow covering the ground by now. If I were going to judge…I’d say being here with the flu might win out over being in, say, Boise, Idaho in a snow storm without the flu. Some times, we just don’t get a choice…
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I hope you are feeling better soon. Great shots.
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Thanks, the flu is fading, but clingy. But it’s kind of weird when I show photos of this place, and the comments are more about my flu. I think I have some pretty cool commenters!
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Holy Catfish, BadfishMan! you’re in the Maldives? You’re on vacation again. But you actually packed the flu to take? No way! *sending chickenless soup; Echinacea tea; Healing Energy; with love and hugs your way*
You’ve been gone for so long, I wondered what you were up to. Now I know.
Get well soon. Come back home soon. MISS YOU!
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FIM! Where have you been…I have missed you bigtime! But wait, maybe it was me who went away. I packed no flu, I’m pretty sure I contracted it on the plane–breathing all that foul air in again and again. Echinacea…that’s exactly what I’d like to be sipping right about now. And love and hugs, too! Thanks! One thing I’ve discovered is how out of shape I have allowed myself to get…and it ain’t pretty.
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Ach! Word press is at it again! I didn’t receive this reply 😦
I only find out just now after reading and replying to your Maldives – pear shaped (2nd post – the first also never made it to my inbox 😦 😦 ) post. I wanted to see if you’d been back to answer my “Holy Badfishman” exclamation. And indeed you had!
I was going through withdrawal, with nothing from you.
But, it’s a new year, and we’re back in the swing of things. Glad, in fact that the whole holiday season is behind us.
Do you not have Echinacea there? *wonders if care packages of herbs will be allowed?*
More love and hugs heading your way!
How’s Duncan?
Peace Out!
Fim
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Hmmm, I’m thinking by thongs, you don’t mean the rubber slip-ons Australians wear on their feet. I don’t see how they would help to cure your malady. But in case that is exactly what you’re referring to, it might help your healing to read this post about thongs. https://theeternaltraveller.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/the-thong-shack/
In the meantime, enjoy the beautiful views and get well soon.
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That’s funny…a thong shack. I would like to see that one that one of your commenters mentioned–a bra fence. I’m not weird, just curious. I’m definitely a thong wearer on vacation in places where it’s warm enough. They just seem right…as opposed to hiking boots or cross trainers (that so many travelers seem to wear, everywhere). But yeah, I wasn’t referring to these thongs!
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I thought so!
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But, now I think of it, I am that kind of thong kind of guy.
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I thought so! Ha ha.
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Who doesn’t love a good thong?
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I love mine. They are blue with sparkly diamantes and they look great on my feet at the beach! 🙂
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Ooooh! Post a photo. I just snapped a photo of a whole board full of thongs for sale.
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I don’t have them with me while we are on holidays, but leave it with me and I’ll get back to you!
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Deal!
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Sorry to hear you arent well. I managed to get a cold for Xmas as well. I hope it isn’t bringing you t=down too far and just making you lay on the beach a little more. Interested in hearing what you think of the Maldives. Worth all the hype?
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Thanks…I hope you get better soon, also. And you’re right…I’m just relaxing and taking in all the beauty, and not much anything else…so fine, no worries. What else is there to do in paradise, jet ski?
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Snorkel maybe? I hope you are taking photos!
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Snorkel, yeah…or, snooze!
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It looks very beautiful. But more importantly, warm! Sorry to hear you’re sick, dear Fish. Hope you get better soon so you can enjoy it. {{{Badfish}}}
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Hey woman!!! Missed you a bunch. And it is beautiful here, and warm. Hot actually, too hot in the sun. I’m sunburned. Stupid. Sunburned with the flu…how does that happen? Have a Happy New Year. I’ll be in India for New Years Eve…we’ll see what that brings, eh?!
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If it wasn’t for you having the flu I would be so giving you a dirty look. But if you gotta be sick then I hear seawater is good for you 😉
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HA! I can just imagine those squinty eyes glaring my way! Thank god, I’ve got the flu!! And right, what better place to get it than paradise. I think seawater is very good for people in many ways. I have been swimming, and snorting underwater. I think it’s working. And the fish don’t seem to mind.
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Have you asked the fish though? 😉
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no, but they pee in there, you know…
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Beautiful images as always. Love your ‘two sides to everything’. Get well soon.
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I kept looking for street art. But…no streets on the island…
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Ha! I know how you feel. As street art was totally lacking in Fiji, I had to keep myself entertained with beautiful people and rich, blue waters. Somehow,I managed to survive 😉
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Right…when there is no street art, the tough get tougher and hammer right on through the bad times. You, me…birds of a feather, hammering.
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Be strong Mr Badfish 😉
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Strong…right. That’s why they call me bad.
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[…] Badfish out of Water is in the Maldives! Here is sneak peek of the ‘horrible’ views around him. I cannot wait to hear his tales and see more photos from his vacations. The featured image is his, of course, to bring us back a summery view! […]
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Hey, that place looks familiar. Hope you’re feeling better! I’m in the middle of a blizzard. 🙂
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Kelly, Sajit says hi. Yeah, the place was very cool (discounting the flu and the Xmas mandatory dinner). A blizzard…and me in only shorts
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Worse places to have the flu! Feel better.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be in some place with snow right now!
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Lovely captures…specially the last one with dining table in foreground and sea in background!
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Hey thanks for hanging out and commenting. And right…I just loved that shot when I was sitting there eating.
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Well… lucky you!!! 🙂
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Serendipity…gotta love it!
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[…] Badfish Out of Water RIGHT NOW IN THE MALDIVES […]
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Love the pics! Great shots. Of course they have serious sea level rise issues there! Existential threat of disappearance. Looks gorgeous!
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Yeah, that nasty sea-level thing! The stilts are actually fairly high…a number of feet, so there’s room. But the sand on the beach is even now disappearing!
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gosh. its good to hear from you Badfish
as usual it makes me want to hop on the next boat. fascinating about the f lu…sorry you are sick in paradise. Sometimes the flu can be almost seductive…I had it once in Chiapas,thekind that is comforting in a way…no headache, coughing or other gross symptoms . stay in bed no one knows, no one cares… there was a pharmacy next door to the hotel…. slept for two days. just another weird American…
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Ha! Gradma, you flu sounds a whole lot kinder and gentler than mine. However, I have spent a lot of time reclining…and in the jacuzzi and just floating in the ocean trying to rid myself of the gunk. AND there really is nothing else to do in paradise like this if you are alone, so fine, I rest! It’s not like I’d be out kite boarding if I wasn’t reclining!
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i’m never sick long. The thing I remember was every time I left the room for a minute someone ran in and re-made the bed…short-sheets the way they do, so I’d have to rip it apart and fix it my style. very picky… well, hope you are over your flu soon and back to whatever. Think of me up here (over?) waiting patiently for the holidays to be over…there’s still time for snow, too. Happy 2016 !
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I can relate to that—I’m usually not sick, but when I am (or not) I’m pretty picky about the way I want my stuff around me. Happy new year to you, too!!!
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happy new year badfish
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cheers!
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[…] Although I have had a bunch of wonderful new blog help from my dear friend Karuna (https://livinglearningandlettinggo.wordpress.com/) I still don’t know very much about what I am doing with this blog, or if there are “rules” I’m breaking but here goes. I made this comment on the wonderful Badfish2 blog about thongs and the Maldives: 31 December 2015 at 01:01 […]
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Very, very cool!!
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Hope you are getting over the flu symptoms.
Never just a beach as the photos show.
Amazing!!
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