November 2011 - Posts

Happy 3rd Anniversary

Published 30 November 11 11:59 AM | Maldives Complete

Happy 3 rd Anniversary to Maldives Complete! Three years ago today I pushed the button which loaded the Maldives Complete code and material live to the web. That entire first week, after emailing all my friends, the site got a mere 186 visits and 1,147...

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Best of the Maldives: Sizzling Food – Meeru

Published 29 November 11 5:50 PM | Maldives Complete

  If you’re looking for hot foods instead of hot drinks , then Meeru ’s Hot Rock Restaurant’s delicacies sizzle all the way to your table and then some… “Featuring seafood, steak, chicken or exotic game cooked at your table on volcanic “ hot rocks...

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Best of the Maldives: Hot Drinks Cafe – Kandooma

Published 29 November 11 12:18 AM | Maldives Complete

  At first glance, one would expect that refreshing pina coladas and tropical coolers would be more the order of the day than a steaming mug of brew. Coffee and tea is more the craving for those colder, cloudier climes (like today which saw our first...

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Holiday Shopping

Published 26 November 11 4:45 PM | Maldives Complete

     This weekend in the USA is sort of the unofficial starting pistol for the Christmas shopping season. While purists bemoan the creep of holiday decorations, promos and music into the days before Thanksgiving, discretion dictates that...

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Best of the Maldives: Dive Centre Shirts – Palm Beach

Published 25 November 11 8:2 PM | Maldives Complete

  Today is the biggest shopping day of the year in the world It is the biggest shopping day in the biggest consumer economy in the world. ‘ Black Friday’ as in dubbed. ‘Black’ as in both ‘in the black’ (like the stores P&L’s expect to be at the...

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Best of the Maldives: Ingredient Theme – Club Med Kani

Published 24 November 11 6:3 PM | Maldives Complete

Happy Thanksgiving Pilgrims! The spirit of the day is appreciation and gratitude (which must come relatively easy for anyone who finds themselves in the Maldives today), but the centrepiece of the American tradition is food. In particular, one main ingredient...

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Best of the Maldives: Wood Craft - Kanuhura

Published 23 November 11 2:12 AM | Maldives Complete

  The ‘traditional’ gift for 6 th anniversary might be iron , but the USA has adapted a ‘Modern’ version of the anniversary gifts which specifies ‘wood objects’ as the gift of choice. And so if you are looking for an appropriate gift to celebrate...

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Best of the Maldives: Water Driving Range – Palm Beach

Published 21 November 11 6:34 PM | Maldives Complete

    This week marks my 6 th anniversary of blogging . I actually first cut my teeth on digital media a number of years prior to the launch of the Maldives Complete blog. I first started writing about “ Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity...

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Best of Maldives Online – TA Ratings: Cocoa Island

Published 16 November 11 3:42 AM | Maldives Complete

If you really want to poll for the best of somewhere to travel, then one of the most credible popular juries is TripAdvisor . No fees, no advertising bias, no select group. It is completely open to the entire world of travel and travellers. That doesn’t...

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New7Blunders of Nature

Published 14 November 11 5:45 PM | Maldives Complete

  From proud show of world travel highpoints to an embarrassing show of world travel wannabees. ‘ New7Wonders of Nature announcement this week of its 7 ‘winners’ vindicated the Maldives Marketing and Public Relation Corporation’s bold move to withdraw...

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World Travel Market 2011World

Published 13 November 11 12:6 PM | Maldives Complete

  Maldives came to London last week. The World Travel Market is Europe’s largest travel and tourism trade fair filling the entire Excel exhibition centre in London. It is an opportunity for tourism agencies and major players to convene with existing...

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Best of the Maldives: Longest Shoreline - Kuredu

Published 12 November 11 3:42 PM | Maldives Complete

  Happy Birthday Dad. Today is my father , Edwin Lynn’s , birthday . And probably his best present is his recently published book ‘ Shorelines’ . It’s a present for himself to see this distillation of a life’s work of insight and reflection come...

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Best of the Maldives: Repeater Honour - Komandoo

Published 11 November 11 11:38 AM | Maldives Complete

11-11-11. A bit of a numerically milestone event. Especially for British and Americans for whom ’11-11’ has long represented a day of honous for the nations’ veterans. The date itself marks the end of the First World War (aka Armistice Day ) which goes...

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Best of the Maldives: Thai – Anantara Veli

Published 10 November 11 11:33 AM | Maldives Complete

  Happy Loy Krathong ! “On the eve of the 12th lunar month, Anantara Resorts Maldives is proud to present a traditional evening of Thai cuisine and Krathong – flower-shaped candlelit rafts – in celebration of Loy Krathong, The Festival of Lights...

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Best of the Maldives: Deep Sea Fishing–Bandos

Published 9 November 11 10:55 AM | Maldives Complete

    Lots of resorts offer deep sea fishing as an excursion, but today Bandos has organised the first ever Maldives Catch & Release Game Fishing Tournament at the resort in conjunction with the non-profit association Maldives Game Fishing...

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