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Where are we today? Victoria, Mahé in the Seychelles

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 Day 2 After twenty four hours of resting and sleeping his cold away, Dave woke up ready to walk.  I, on the other hand, felt meh and a little lightheaded. I couldn’t out my finger on anything specific, though, so I ignored my instinct that we should take a taxi to our planned activity: viewing the giant tortoises at the Botanical Garden.  Mr. Google sent us on a confusing route.  After we had gone out of our way in the tropic heat and equatorial sun, we found ourselves right by the store I strolled to yesterday.  We could actually see the ship from that intersection. Talk about walking in circles!  We met up with a couple who had taken a much shorter path to the intersection, and they looked as cool as if they had just been sipping juleps on a covered porch.  Google had promised an 18 minute walk. We had already used that up, but we still had a long way to go.  We crossed a busy intersection with no traffic lights.  On the other side, we cam...