Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.

25 mars 2013

The North from East to West

When P was here, he wanted to see if his scooter still worked. As I hadn't gone anywhere near it for the past few months, it didn't start. P pulled bits of it out and put it all back together, gave it some petrol and kept trying, and it started a couple...

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Tags: island, mayotte, house, green, scooter, shop, beach, village, philip, bamboo, north, animal, building, concrete, corrugated, iron, mosque, sheep

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18 mars 2013

Moving House

When P and I came to Mayotte on August 15th 2011, we had only known for a short while that we - I, at any rate - would be moving at all. I remember searching the Internet for possible flats or flat shares, hunting all around the area of the island my...

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Tags: mayotte, flat, sun, philip, cupboard, move, clean, shelves, shutters, tired

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11 mars 2013

High tide and low fish

The other day, a friend of mine - Mireille, the one I went to the circus with - and I went to the beach. It wasn't a particularly fine day, and the tide was high, but we tried to go to the drop-off anyway and see what we could find. We didn't find very...

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Tags: water, light, coral, fish, mask, beach, flippers, swim, breath, cloud, metres, overcast, sakouli, sky

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4 mars 2013

Aria Sopra la Bergamasca

That was fun. I hadn't played in a "real" concert for ages. The sort of concert where you're in a church, everybody on stage is dressed in black and the atmosphere is very serious. You're not supposed to laugh, cough, say anything or even look anywhere...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, guitar, music, recorder, concert, violin, group, baroque, ensemble, singer, church, classical, fatima, nomad, notre dame

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