In the last few days, a delicate stillness has had hold of Soneva Jani. We have fewer guests at this time of year and the lagoon, which...

Visiting the Maldives is a time for relaxation, sunbathing, diving, swimming and taking in the beautiful surroundings. For children, it’s...

The Maldives Islands are just a stone’s throw (that may be an exaggeration) from the South West coast of India and so, as you’d expect,...

On the southern tip of Soneva Jani are Cinema Paradiso and Directors Cut, an outdoor cinema and a Japanese restaurant. The cinema screen...

Yesterday I walked out of the Soneva Jani overseas spa in a daze, clutching two pieces of paper with what can only be described as...

Soneva Jani is the 1.8km long island that I’m currently calling home. Despite being such a small part of the world, it is filled with...

International Women’s Day is next week and there will be celebrations around the world. At Soneva there is drive to hire more women on...

February is the sunniest and driest month in the Maldives. Although the official temperature never changes much from 29 degrees Celsius,...

As I turned the key in the lock of the bookshop for my lunch break last week, I received a call asking if I wanted to join a group of...

For a lot of Maldivian people and tourists, more time is spent in the ocean around the islands than on land. I spoke to Ellie Butler, the...

One of the joys of being on Soneva Jani is working with Maldivian people. Before I came here I had never met anyone from the Maldives,...

It might seem obvious, but getting 104 boxes of books from the UK to a tiny island somewhere in the Indian Ocean during a pandemic that...

In my blog post about my favourite reads of 2020, I included We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan, a cinematic and brilliant debut...

Since I arrived on Soneva Jani, most nights before I go to sleep I challenge myself to remember everything I’ve done the day before. Even...

Christmas and New Year festivities on Soneva Jani were big and noisy, sparkly and fun. All the normal over indulgence was happily done...

A couple of weeks ago I was at the top of the Soneva Jani astronomy tower with resident astronomer Maavin Faure telling him how I’d only...

“You chose to go litter picking on your lunch break?!” an incredulous friend asks me on the phone this week. “Well yes”, I explain. “But...

If you move five thousand, three hundred miles around the world, you might expect to be met with a slightly different way of life. I am...

The launch of the shop on Soneva Jani is within touching distance now, so as the finishing flourishes are being put in place, I thought...

‘Excuse the unprofessional language but omggggg!!!!!!!!!!’ was how I responded to the email offering me the job to become one of Ultimate...