Country: Maldives

The Maldives is the least solid country I keep — a scatter of coral rings a metre above a rising sea, held in the full knowledge that it may not outlast my long habit of not going.

  • Charcoal sketch of a turquoise atoll and overwater villas in the Maldives - never been abroad

    Maldives

    The Maldives is the place I keep as a thin bright ring of sand on a great deal of blue water — a country built almost entirely of the sea around it.

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