About Us and Our
Maldives Travel Guide
Initially both of us were stumped on what to say for our About Us page. Honestly! It’s somewhere between writing an autobiography and giving a speech. Neither of which we’re good at or keen to do. Why do you think we love travelling to the Maldives islands with their white sands folding gently into clear blue seas? It’s to get away from all that chatter!
We began by wondering what we looked for when going to “about us” pages on sites and came up with simply wanting to know a bit more about who was providing us with what we were searching for… Putting a personality to the otherwise impersonal web… Finding a human pulse within the pages…So brace yourselves folks and read About Us!
Charley and Phil are friends with a passion for The Maldives. It might make a good page if we could say what exciting lives we lead but candour is the best policy…. I suppose… So you could say a page about us isn’t necessary since we obviously love these Maldives island resorts and want everyone to know, visit and respect them for the beautiful tropical islands they are.
We both live and work in London, England: Regular jobs from Monday to Friday, seeing family and friends at the weekends when we can and always saving for our next trip. Phil loves his motorbike and Charley loves her nieces so there is balance in the relationship.
We don’t jet around the world (wish we did!) but we’ve travelled extensively. We’re two people who go on one or two main holidays each year and the occasional long weekend in Europe.
Phil has spent a time in Holland and returns when he can. One of his paintings hung in the Gemeente Museum Den Haag for a while! He also has cousins in Spain so we get to hang out there for a few days each year.
The Maldives is a departure for him. He’s always been a traveller’s traveller, filling his notebooks with sketches, stories and anecdotes. He’s more used to sitting outside a restaurant, painting the façade then taking the picture inside to cadge a free meal! Phil has walked many paths and spent time in the company of an eclectic mix of people from Lenny Henry to the late great Stanley Kubrick.
Not one to sit still, it took Charley to persuade him that chilling out with a few water sports on Maldives island resorts would keep him relaxed and take his mind off things.
Now, Charley’s a researcher down to her high-heeled pointed black boots. If you need anything found she is the one to find it, I kid you not. A post graduate in Law she now works somewhere doing something and won’t show me her account balance. That’s lawyers for you…
She's a fantastic face painter so the kids always crowd her at her niece’s school. Charley loves Canada, especially those wide-open spaces where only the trees and mountains crowd you. She asks me to inform you all that more than this she is not willing to volunteer… Yet!
And since we’ve been taking vacations for a good few years now Charley thinks it’s time to share our accumulated knowledge and love for everything Maldivian!
Like most of you, we manage our money, pay the bills, save a bit each month and when the time comes, blow the cobwebs off the wallet and search the internet, scour teletext, the TV and high street for the best Maldives deal for us.
We both hope that you can see a reflection of our personalities in the site. After all that is what we want you to see and feel. This page may be about us but we want you the reader to share our experiences and love of the Maldives. Heck! Once we get organised we’re going to want to hear from you!
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