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

30 janvier 2012

All Golfed Out

Last Sunday, P and I were invited to a "Grand Golf Initiation" organized by my new friends the Bretons of Mayotte. As P likes golf, and as I don't, we were asked to bring our instruments and at least play those. We ended up playing both golf and music....

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Tags: mayotte, emily, accordion, bretons, guitar, music, recorder, sun, combani, golf, initiation, instruments, philip, ylang

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15 janvier 2012

Water, water everywhere...

I got a call the other day from a girl I’d met at a friend’s birthday party, asking me if I wanted to do something on Sunday. The search was on. She rang me back yesterday evening, having thought of going to the beach, renting a kayak, paddling round...

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Tags: indian ocean, island, water, emily, coral, diving, fish, mask, reef, camera, flippers, friend, kayak, swim

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19 décembre 2011

She'll be coming round the mountain...

I went round the Mont Choungui last week-end with a walking group. It's near the bottom of the island, and is the most famous mountain in Mayotte, if not the highest (That's Mont Bénara, 664m). From its top, you're supposed to be able to see all the southern...

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Tags: banana, boy, rice, banga, chameleon, choungui, coconut, forest, maki, mont, spider, teenager, village, web

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11 décembre 2011

Christmas Market - R.I.P.

Two hours later, I went to the driving school for two hours of motorbike lessons. It had already started drizzling, so the monitor told two of us that we had better come back another day as the rain looked like holding. It's OK to learn to drive in the...

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Tags: mbiwi, water, mzungu, lesson, motorbike, rain, christmas, market

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10 décembre 2011

Christmas Market

There was a Christmas market today in front of the M’biwi Café, just down the road from us. I thought a Christmas market by 32°C sounded interesting, so I went along after work to see what sort of things were up for sale. The first thing that struck me...

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Tags: mayotte, food, papaya, clothes, mzungu, postcard, colour, basket, christmas, jewellery, juice, market, pineapple, tortoise

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5 décembre 2011

Mangrove Mud

Last week, I went on a grande randonnée, a walk signalled by white and red flashes on the trees, with the association my music group belongs to, the Bretons of Mayotte. I hadn't really had the occasion to explore the island properly, mainly because of...

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Tags: mayotte, banana, food, beach, rain, chirongui, mangrove, picnic, pilao, root

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2 décembre 2011

Playing dress-up

I went to the Mayotte M'Gombani Fashion Salon today, as you can probably see from the photos. Different creators were holding stands with their various wares: trousers and tops, colourful dresses, earrings, necklaces, oven mitts (rather the odd one out),...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, kishali, salouva, december, beauty, boueni, bouéni, henna, mahorais, mdzindzano, mgombani, mode, salon

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26 novembre 2011

T.P. Folk

Yesterday, my music group and I were invited to play in a local brochetti. Brochettis are small restaurants, often in car-parks or in the middle of nowhere, all corrugated iron and plastic chairs, but they cook locally-grown/fished/caught food on a barbecue,...

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Tags: breadfruit, food, fish, music, road, barbecue, brochetti, colas, construction, mama brochetti

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8 novembre 2011

Good morning all.

A quick hello from underwater, when I went diving with a colleague's husband !

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Tags: water, diving, mask, oxygen, underwater, bottle

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7 novembre 2011

Photo albums

Underwater photo of anemones and little fish, taken by a colleague's daughter with an underwater camera. I've just added a photo album to the blog, called "Blue Lagoon". It shows photos of the lagoon, above and under the water, some corals and fish, sandy...

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Tags: lagoon, newspaper, strike, coral, fish, beach, sand, album, photo, underwater, bag, bin, dark, people, rubbish, town

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