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FINDING FREEDOM

IT HAD BEEN SIX YEARS since I’d had a proper holiday – one where you go away for more than a long weekend. I’ve been lucky enough to visit the Maldives before – once on honeymoon in 2014 and then again in winter 2015. But since the birth of my son in 2018 we’d not ventured anywhere – I just didn’t feel confident or competent enough to manage a crying baby on a plane! We decided to wait until he was a toddler. And then Covid happened, which put paid to pretty much everyone’s plans.

This summer, my sun-deprived husband was in desperate need of a break – we all were. So when the chance came to jet off to paradise, we took it! Our destination was the 375,000 square metre Raa Maamigili island, home to Cora Cora Maldives. sland is surrounded The sand-fringed

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