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28 mai 2012

Sunday best.

People here do dry their washing in the most extraordinary places. Public railings, pavements in front of schools, bridges, even fields full of water buffalo. It makes for very colourful displays. Most people can't afford washing machines. They wash the...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, bridge, dry, pavement, railing, washing

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21 mai 2012

Hot country, cold chain.

Hot country, cold chain.

This singularly appetizing photo is of several cardboard boxes of mabawas - chicken wings again. What the photo doesn't show is the large yellow and red sign just above the food, saying "DO NOT OPEN THE BOXES". Written in French, which most people here...

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Tags: mayotte, box, food, chicken wings, supermarket, beef, cold chain, shopping list

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14 mai 2012

Voulé on Sohoa Beach

Voulé on Sohoa Beach

We went to a barbecue on the beach the other day. These are extremely common here, there are always groups of people cooking things on any beach you go to. Traditional barbecue food here is chicken wings and green bananas, which are either cooked in the...

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Tags: mayotte, scooter, beach, music, barbecue, mahorais, leaves, voulé, carry

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7 mai 2012

Music in Mayotte

Music in Mayotte

We've been to a few concerts recently, to find out what the local music is like. First of all came Rossy, whose poster attracted P because of the accordion. Arrived at the concert a quarter of an hour before it was supposed to start, which seemed reasonable...

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Tags: mayotte, music, mahorais, friend, instruments, concert, cordes avides, del, diho, jazz, maalesh, rossy, traditional

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2 mai 2012

Internet

The Big Antenna In The Sky went down the other day. Mobile phones stopped working for the morning. Which is roughly as much a catastrophe here as it would be in any other country, as people don't have enough money to buy chicken wings or cheese, but everybody...

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Tags: mayotte, access, internet, orange, stoi, 56k, broadband, speed

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