It's the weekend

The weekend here starts on Thursday night, so Friday we spent the morning by the roof top pool, fixing bugs in the system (oh so many still and missing functionality).  Ryan and I were getting a bit fraught with various annoyances in .net when the call to prayer started up from mosques (miskiy) across the island.

View from the hotel roof (by the pool)











After a swim to unwind we set off  to get the ferry to Vilingile a couple of miles across the water.  The ferry teminal is at the opposite corner of the island from the hotel but I'm starting to get a feel for the place now. - when Jim and I came out two years ago, we didn't venture out that much. We had planned to eat at Salsa 205, a place on Ameenee Magu a few minutes walk from the UN building  but it was shut when we got there, so we got lost round some back streets and found a nice little resaturant for more stir fired noodles (oh the pounds are piling on)

 The ferry teminal was easy enough to find. 3 Ruffiya each (22 to the £) and there was a boat waiting.

Dhoni or water bus

Inside the Vilingile Ferry









It was stupidly hot this afternoon and with almost no air movement, we ambled round the island looking at views of Male', small, almost translucent crabs scurry at breakneck speed across the sand, stripey fish and blue fish with yellow fins and a long pipe (?) fish plus lots of non-descript tiddlers.

Me - taking the afternoon off!











Took a lot of photos of boats (they're such interesting shapes and colours)

Fishing Dhonies

The new company boat :¬)









and stopped at the cafe next to the ferry terminal on the way back for a yummy mango milkshake.

The Mango Milkshake
















We arrived back on Male' at dusk and walked round the 'coast road' - the one with the long unpronouncable name past the docks and markets (in any other country it would be scary place at night but it doesn't feel that way here.

Male' from Vilingile













We are supposed to be getting a motor launch to Eydhafushi on Baa Atoll tomorrow morning, 100km and 2hrs away.  However, we got a text this evening to say the weather wasn't good.  If it's too rough we'll have to cancel, which will be a pity because we were going to meet someone we worked with closely two years ago.