Why Mauritius Will Bring Out Your Inner Diva, Too ; When Your Holiday Is so Luxurious Carla Bruni Would Be Envious, Those Wayward Breezes Can Be so Annoying
Mail on Sunday › March 08, 2009
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OH FOR heaven's sake, this stupid wind keeps ruffling my pages and flipping them over when I'm trying to relax and read this piece on Carla Bruni,' I said to myself. 'Look, it's this fold-out cover, it keeps flapping about. See? See? How ANNOYING!' And then I caught myself just as I was about to add: 'Can't they do something about the wind?'
With those unspoken words, our stay in a spa resort on the island of Mauritius had turned me into my old chum Elton John. Not, sadly, the talented piano-playing, stadium-filling part. More the I-want- what-I-want-and-I-wantit-now aspect that surfaces from time to time, as witnessed in the documentary Tantrums And Tiaras.See the full content of this document
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Why Mauritius Will Bring Out Your Inner Diva, Too ; When Your Holiday Is so Luxurious Carla Bruni Would Be Envious, Those Wayward Breezes Can Be so Annoying
It took Elton decades of being indulged to reach the point where he complained about an inconvenient breeze. Me? Shamingly, just five days.
Mauritius - a tropical pear-shaped drop in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar, itself off the south-eastern coast of Africa - is the holiday destination you are reminded of when Royalty (Prince Harry...See the full content of this document
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