Time to Fly! ✈️🌏🇲🇻

Team Maldives have finally made it to the Maldives after a very long 24 hours of traveling! 🌏

A very early start to the day for some meant having to get up at 3:30 am to make it to Heathrow in time to meet the rest of the team 🙈 








Liv had a mystery parcel to hand out to the team, delivered to us by team Maldives 2020/21…. and it turns out that it was Tilly the turtle from team Maldives 2019 🐢



After a smooth check in and security process we headed to Spuntino for a spot of lunch… all meals thoroughly enjoyed 😋




Prior to our flight, we got a few team photos at the gate before being told that our flight to Dubai was delayed! A delayed flight by an hour combined with a short window time to make our connecting flight to Male, resulted in our team having to sprint through Dubai international! 





Another 4 hours to go until we reached the Maldives…. Fortunately for some they are able to get sleep on flights… 😆



9 am was upon us and we finally touched down in the Maldives. All we had left was immigration (good job we checked our visas 😉) and then we were able to collect our luggage and meet the wonderful team at MGGA. 


To be continued… 🇲🇻🌏🇬🇧


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