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

12 mai 2014

There haven't been any underwater photos for a while.

On Easter Sunday, I went out on a boat trip with the Bretons of Mayotte association. Dragged a friend along, too, and there also happened to be a couple of folk dancers on the same boat. We went to the north of Mayotte to look for dolphins and possibly...

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Tags: mayotte, water, colour, white, coral, fish, reef, beach, blue, boat, sand, sea, bretons, friend, trip, choisil, potato

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5 mai 2014

Carnival Week-End II : A Colourful Parade

The carnival in commemoration of Slavery Abolition Day continued on the Sunday as well. First of all, I wanted to show you the diversity of musical instruments. In case you're wondering, the most prized instrument here is an old washing-machine drum....

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, music, friend, instruments, hat, make-up, parade, week, washing-machine, abolition, carnival, slavery, accessory, costume, headscarf, oven, tray

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28 avril 2014

Carnival Week-End I : A Motivated Zebu

Sunday 27th April is Slavery Abolition Day in Mayotte. This is usually commemorated by a carnival, comprising various dances, an exhibition of some sort at the Tourist Office and possibly another event. On Saturday, something was planned to start at half...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, zebu, mahorese, abolition, carnival, corrida, day, republic, slavery, square

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14 avril 2014

Majicavo

The village I live in is called Majicavo. Literally, it means "where there is no water". Like all Mahorese villages, it's a very poor place, but near enough to the capital (Mamoudzou) for people to want to be modern and Westernized. Also like all Mahorese...

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Tags: mayotte, house, emily, shop, town, village, camera, kids, concrete, corrugated, iron, mosque, shack, douka, majicavo

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24 mars 2014

Two Classical Concerts Went To Market...

This week-end and last week-end, there were two concerts. Not the same one repeated but two different ones. The common denominator was the music school director's sister, Odile, who plays first flute in the Avignon orchestra and who sings too. She was...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, flute, music, concert, sing, violin, church, classical, fatima, notre dame, cello, avignon, odile, romantic

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17 mars 2014

Hey to the Ferry.

P came over during my half-term holidays to spend a week in Mayotte with me. During that week, we played a lot of music and we ate out several times. It was on one of these times that something rather interesting happened. The restaurant we wanted to...

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Tags: dzaoudzi, mamoudzou, mayotte, holiday, emily, boat, philip, restaurant, ferry, salama djema, delay, engine

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3 mars 2014

This Is The Voiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice !

There's a reality-TV show called The Voice. The idea is to try out amateur singers, train them, get them singing all sorts of different musical styles, find the best one and record their first album with them. There are several shows of this type, it...

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Tags: music, sing, singer, burglary, casting, the voice, audition, train, bruno berberes, koropa

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17 février 2014

Playing the violin on stage.

On the first day of February, the music school in Mamoudzou held its second classical concert. We'd managed to bring together quite the orchestra, with different - complementary - instruments, and different nationalities. One of the violinists was French,...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, music, recorder, concert, violin, church, classical, organ, piano, cello, trumpet, viola

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10 février 2014

Dancing Nyota

There's been a folk-dancing workshop for the last few years here. It started the year I arrived in Mayotte, and was under the name of the Bretons de Mayotte association. Now, it's led by a man who has lived all over France, travelled all over Africa,...

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Tags: france, mayotte, accordion, bretons, guitar, music, recorder, traditional, dance, french, folk, violin, musician

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13 janvier 2014

Pink bags and blue boxes

In Mayotte, people don't fret about big travel bags, careful packaging, luggage straps and padlocks. They don't worry about their big black case being indistinguishable from everybody else's big black cases on the luggage carousel. They don't bother repackaging...

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Tags: france, mayotte, box, england, trip, cooler, ice, luggage, plane, travel

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