Blogs in November 2014

Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives 26th November 2014

Away from the five-star hotels and beyond luxury hideaways, Tom Chesshyre travels to see the real, unexplored Maldives, skirting around the archipelagos periphery, staying at simple guesthouses, and using cargo ships and ferries. He discovers that beyond the glossy...

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Beach Babylon 1st January 1970

The TripFiction team conjectures from events in the book, that this book is set in The Maldives: however the book only acknowledges that is set somewhere exotic. The book alludes to it being a Muslim country, there is an...

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On the Island 1st January 1970

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family’s holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the library any day. T.J. has no desire to...

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The Maldive Mystery 1st January 1970

One of the world’s foremost explorers investigates the origins of Maldive history and discovers that the seemingly remote and insignificant islands on the Indian Ocean once formed a crucial crossroads for early pre-European civilizations

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Melody of Maldives 1st January 1970

Melody of Maldives” as the author himself had confessed somewhere in a local press release, has been scratched out from his own autobiographical nostalgia in Maldives, sensed and felt in person while living a professional there, where he resigned...

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