Sunny side up

Sunny side up City celebrities and residents are bidding goodbye to pandemic blues amid the waters of Maldives, which has emerged as the go-to holiday destination these days Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Express News Service BENGALURU : If the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown saw everyone making banana bread and dalgona coffee, this phase of the pandemic is all about enjoying the sun, sea and surf in the cerulean waters of Maldives. The internet is rife with memes of Bollywood celebs jet-setting to the South Asian island country. The trend seems to have caught up here too, with Bengalureans and Sandalwood stars also taking a short breather on international waters. Actor-producer Sharmiela Mandre, who recently returned from her Maldives holiday, says she felt miles safer at the airport than at any mall in the city. “At the moment, since domestic fliers are more, the international airport has fewer people anyway. Flights to Maldives are just two hours long, and both ways, the seats were half full,” she says.