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29 juin 2015

Pneumatophores.

Pneumatophores.

I've been fascinated by the mangrove since I arrived in Mayotte. The mangrove goes pretty much all round the island. From most points on the coast, you can either see it or smell it, or both. Mangrove trees are salt tolerant, and they have an very simple...

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Tags: mayotte, water, mangrove, root, tree, threat, breathe, filter, filtration, guyana, guyane, human, influence, new caledonia, nouvelle calédonie, pneumatophore, scientists, threatened, crab

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25 juin 2015

First Moon of Ramadan

First Moon of Ramadan

Seen from Mayotte, the moon looks like a smile. This is the first moon of Ramadan this year. Ramadan, or a period of roughly one month when Muslims do not eat or drink between sunrise and sunset, but gorge themselves on fried food and sugary treats at...

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Tags: mayotte, school, night, ramadan, muslim, day, arrive, cadi, fast, leave, miradji, moon

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22 juin 2015

Girls, tyres and ministers, oh my!

Girls, tyres and ministers, oh my!

Last Saturday was the tyre-race. Just to be different, I'd decided that this year, I wanted to run with a big tyre, a lorry tyre, one of those huge things that come up to about chest level. I knew the time-keeper for the tyre race, so I talked him into...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, tyres, race, big, lorry, minister, paint, 2015, dom, manuel valls, najat vallaud-belkacem, prime minister, problems, ton petit dom

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15 juin 2015

Tsoundzou

These are some typical roadside scenes in Mayotte. The above photos were taken in the village of Tsoundzou. There's a bridge over a pretty river, where various outrigger canoes were parked. The bridge is actually fairly new. It was started about ten years...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, fruit, car, market, village, football, onion, container, kwalé, palm tree, river, tsoundzou

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8 juin 2015

Protests in the Classroom

Protests in the Classroom

Recently, just for the fun of it, I thought I'd get my kids riled up about something. So I started a nice, light and cheery series of lessons about world problems: racism, discrimination, poverty, starvation, the environment, war, deforestation, animal...

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Tags: mayotte, school, rubbish, clandestine, immigration, martin luther king, kids, violence, room, rape, classroom, litter, attack, discrimination, dream, environment, poster, racism, segregation, speech

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1 juin 2015

Nanny, you probably don't want to know what I did last weekend.

Nanny, you probably don't want to know what I did last weekend.

I recently had a couple of acquaintances over. The sort of people who'll give you absolutely no news for a year or so, then suddenly pop up out of the blue saying that they've bought plane tickets to Mayotte and can I put them up. They'd timed their visit...

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Tags: island, mayotte, t-shirt, motorbike, trip, area, moto club, residential, sunday

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