Mauritius

going to say, on the other end of the scale, did you see the one that was...

I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce it, but we were on about it earlier, weren't we, Gary? The one that were in Mauritius.

Diagonale de Fou.

I thought you were going to say Moab.

It's a fair way as well, isn't it, to get there? Like you say, it's a big commitment.

If you're going to go there, it's a serious commitment to take part.

Yeah, well, Emma was saying she flew from Reunion, is it? She flew from there to Mauritius, so that was a half an hour flight.

Then she flew from Mauritius to Paris and then she had to fly from Paris up to Newcastle, so it were three flights for her.

Mais, mais le pays reste souverain.

Madagascar fait une requête à Maurice.

Maurice doit regarder dans sa souveraineté : est-ce que la requête est motivée juridiquement ou bien il y a d'autres motifs derrière la requête ? Est-ce que ce n'est pas, disons, un bon état politique qui peut opérer ? Alors, il y a quand même une pensée que je devrais faire au niveau de Maurice, hein, s'il y a une requête de Madagascar, un, un travail de due diligence qui doit faire en amont.

Et ne peut pas attirer les investisseurs à Maurice.

Si nous agissons trop facilement pour une raison purement politique contre un adversaire politique du régime actuel, il est capable de créer une situation que-- il crée un climat de-- pas de confiance dans les institutions du pays.

On connaît très souvent, dans certains affaires-là, il y a une dimension politique.

And that's World Odyssey at the cruise terminal.

And the next cruise ship scheduled to arrive is the Silver Muse on the 10th of November, and she'll also do all the South African ports before heading into the Indian Ocean to Reunion, to Mauritius and Seychelles, and then India and on to Asia.

And then comes the big one, and that's the Mein Schiff 6, which is a very, very big vessel.

She will do Kibera, and then Durban, Reunion, Mauritius, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and then heading to Southeast Asia.

So that will be an interesting vessel to see, the Mein Schiff 6, due on the 13th of November.

I've also received an interesting photograph.

And because of that, you can't tax us for this, this, this and that.

So as they go through that agreement... you have your fiscal regime and everything but because you've also got these agreements there's certain things that you cannot tax certain things that you cannot have in the tax agreements and that limits the power of the government to determine how much revenues they can get from that so these things are all legal and you've seen companies instead of offshore accounts they register companies in places like mauritius where they can evade certain taxes Because they want to reduce.

There's profit shifting where they say, well, the same company has got smaller companies and they're moving that money around and the government is not benefiting enough.

So all these things, we know them.

And every country has its own issues.

For example, in India, before 2017, almost all Indian investments were made through Mauritius because there was a tax treaty that basically provide for a zero capital gains tax.

If you put in together a structure in Mauritius, I think India ultimately caught on to that.

has since put that to bed.

It's no longer a go-around.

There's an area in India that essentially allows an offshore investment style investing, so you don't need to get local tax ID numbers or do local filings, so long as you're investing through funds that are structured that way.

We found probably... 80% of our managers who take offshore investments will have that structure set up.

There's a couple legacy Mauritius because they've always done it.

So it can either be a state-sponsored attack from Russia, China, or who knows from who.

I don't know if Mauritius will attack us.

I'd love to go there again.

But it

While traversing some rough seas, Sekwibu fell overboard and drowned.

Livingstone himself had arrived in Kuala Mane in poor health, stricken by fever, so he first stopped on the island of Mauritius to recuperate, before setting off for the long journey home.

He arrived in Southampton on December 12, 1856, and quickly discovered, to his surprise, that he had become a minor celebrity.

Unbeknownst to him, the RGS had published the letters that Livingstone had written to him, presenting his voyages, and had already awarded him their gold medal.

Where did you end up going on your honeymoon?

We went to Mauritius and it was fabulous.

It was really, really good.

So cool.

And even if he wants to, probably enough people around him will persuade him not to do it because that's not what a Formula One driver should be doing or be seen to be doing.

And therefore, he'll go to, you know, Mauritius.

I don't know.

but Peter this is the gift and the curse of of talented drivers who have always been the quickest coming up through the well yeah you're absolutely