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Rémi Krug Island life
No space like home
The Indian Ocean boasts some
Labriz from the horizon to the east, La Disgue and Praslin to the to reach our accommodation, encountering a tiny village, a whole family), plus a bed (itself larger than most five-star and art gallery, plus an elegant yet informal Creole restaurant,
Simon Brooke on the latest Captain Rick Dooley has his life sussed: he spends his days north and, as we buzz around the craggy granite cliffs on the then a bridge over a lily-encrusted lake, landscaped gardens, hotel rooms) that looks out to a timber verandah with its trio blending local cuisine – seafood, spices and delicious salads –
of the world’s most idyllic flying JetRanger helicopters over the sapphire waters of the northwest of Mahé, Silhouette and North Island, halo-ed by a vast swimming pool area surrounded by beds and an open-air of steps down to the beach and the Indian Ocean beyond. with a fusion of English, French and African flavours. Here is
interior trends southern Indian Ocean. As managing director of Helicopter circlets of fluffy silver clouds. cocktail lounge, plus restaurants and villas set into the hillside As the sun set behind Mount Dauban, I clambered in its evidence of the unique, diverse heritage – literally on a plate
islands, home to the kind of Seychelles, one of the perks of the job is acting as pilot, Approaching Silhouette, the 740m peak of Mount and lining the beach. Stretching for almost two kilometres at shadow on vast, smooth boulders, finding a resting place to – that is the lifeblood of Seychelles.
transferring passengers to their tropical island of choice, Dauban rises majestically from the swirling misty ring, the base of Mount Dauban, Labriz nestles unobtrusively into while away the hour before dinner. My bare arms tickled by a Already, I was beginning to understand how a population
luxury resorts where royalty mix with a smile on his face that might pass as smug if weren’t its slopes covered with dense forest, populated by swooping this lush landscape, yet it soon becomes clear there’s everything cool wind in the dusky, tropical heat, I recalled reading how of just over 80,000 people, most of whom live in Victoria,
with rock stars and rich-list
so obviously there through the sheer joy of living his life. fruit bats. Descending slowly, 15 minutes after leaving Mahé, you could wish for on a luxury island hideaway. the resort had been named: “Labriz” is a Seychellois Creole the Seychellois capital on Mahé, are a rich mix of cultures
As we rise from the tarmac at Mahé airport I hear a warm I can see an elegant plantation-style property, set back from a Within minutes, we are deposited at the door of our villa, word, from the French la brise – “the breeze” – evoking the that have created their own identity. The islands have been
members. But – as
and lilting “Welcome to Seychelles” in my headset and sit small harbour, a couple of smaller buildings, and a ribbon of an impressive construction that is described in the resort’s soft gust of wind that gently glides a ship along on a calm day. captured and freed several times during their history,
Karen Kay transfixed as a carpet of sapphire blue dotted with emerald white sand skirting the island, lapped by crystal waters and literature as an Ocean Pavilion. There’s a courtyard-style We dined in the newly restored plantation-style building primarily coming under French rule as a colony of Mauritius,
discovers, as she explores the
green spreads beneath. We’re 1,600 kilometres off the coast fringed with palms. But there’s no sign of Labriz, the island’s garden with a seven-metre swimming pool for us to use in that I’d seen as we hovered over the harbour at Silhouette who eventually passed them to Britain under the 1814 Treaty
of East Africa, northeast of Madagascar, amid a scattering of new – and only – resort and my home for the coming days. privacy, flanked by a separate pavilion that, we’re told, can be earlier that day. Built in 1860 by Mauritian settler Auguste of Paris. In 1903, Seychelles became a separate British
What is luxury?
atolls and archipelagos – one glittering gems, about 115 in all – 41 spectacular granite We spill from the helicopter, feet sinking into the fine used for “en-suite spa treatments or a romantic dinner”. Dauban, it became his family home when he bought the Crown Colony, which won independence in a political coup
islands centred on Mahé, plus 74 sand cays and atolls further powdery sand and run to a waiting golf buggy. Captain Inside, the décor is contemporary chic, with minimal yet island in the mid-19th century. Dauban’s descendants lived in 1976. Socialist rule was brought to a close with a new
issue 01/autumn 2006 £4.95 paradise retreat is not the southwest, including the coralline Aldabra Islands – that Dooley waves and smiles the smile that says, “Be happy, tactile furnishings that are inviting without being fussy. at “Grann Kaz” (a derivation of grande case or “large house”) constitution and free elections in 1993. With no native
make up the archipelago known as Seychelles. Today, in the you’re in paradise. I know –I live here.” High ceilings and high-tech gadgets make this a temple of until 1960, when it was run as a small hotel before falling inhabitants, a hotchpotch of settlers – Portuguese,
same as the next… hazy sunshine, Captain Dooley points out Fregate, jutting We follow a snaking cart path, parallel to the shoreline, modern luxury: there’s a bathtub – big enough for two (if not into disrepair. This colonial masterpiece now houses a library South African, Mauritian, Kenyan, Indian, English, Dutch, L50480
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A chic monochrome space by Andrew Martin
Samantha wears
Photographs by Sasha Gusov
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Game of decadence
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Satin Opera Gloves, ‡24, «О, декаданс, случайные встречи,
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