Expensive & not much too buy
Groceries in the Seychelles are roughly 3 times more expensive than in South Africa. Also there's not much to buy. All chips, sweets and stuff is imported from places ilike Malaysia. You can only buy long life box milk. The bread is rarely fresh. A jar of coffee is very expensive (32 rupees) but nice. Some of the meat had price tags in "Rand" - in other words imported from South Africa. Also the only way you are going to get fish is (A) catch it yourself or (B) Eat at a restaurant (C) Head down to the jetty in Baie Ste Anne at about 8 AM and buy it off the fishermen offloading their boats. You will have to descale & prepare the fish yourself (or pay a local). Some of the small shops only accept rupees and others will give you change in rupees whether you pay in dollars or euros. If you are going to pay with foreign currency, pay in dollars as the exchange rate is much better than Euros....
