Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus. - Notes from a very ... very ... VERY small island in the Indian Ocean !

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18 août 2014

Réunion mon amour, part 2 of 2.

Réunion mon amour, part 2 of 2.

We spent a total of four days and three nights in Mafate. There are no roads, the area is only accessible on foot or by helicopter. The name comes from a wizard who used to live in the cirque, and whose speciality was killing people, using just a piece...

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Tags: island, postcard, photo, cold, group, reunion, hike, cirque, mafate, volcano, fournaise, neiges, passport, piton, route, snow, stamp, tamarin, trek, trou de fer

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11 août 2014

Réunion mon amour, part 1 of 2.

Réunion mon amour, part 1 of 2.

The original plan for July's holiday was a safari in Tanzania. That fell through because it turned out to be extremely expensive and rather difficult to organize. Plan B was a trip to South Africa with P, visiting Johannesburg, Kruger National Park and...

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Tags: island, airport, mountain, shoes, reunion, hike, backpack, cilaos, cirque, hell-bourg, mafate, roland garros, rucksack, salazie, volcano

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4 août 2014

Mayotte has a brand new airport.

Above, the old airport arrival hall. Three hundred people in a very small space with a small conveyor belt, and one or two men in the middle of the conveyor belt, pushing the bags together in order to fit more bags on the belt. You see, the belt would...

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Tags: mayotte, airport, car, bag, cooler, luggage, plane, organize, station, taxi

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28 juillet 2014

This Little M'Zungu Went To Market... and she bought...

This Little M'Zungu Went To Market... and she bought...

This is the outdoor market in Mamoudzou. Pretty much a permanent fixture, currently augmented reality thanks to the Ramadan market which has appended itself on top of the original. I'm quite pleased with these photos because photos of the market are hard...

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Tags: mayotte, cassava, fruit, tomato, vegetable, clothes, salouva, fish, boat, market, fat, headscarf, onion, china, fisherman, mamoudzouThis l, size, taiwan

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21 juillet 2014

The Blue Mango Strikes Again

The Blue Mango Strikes Again

Last week, we had a going-away party for two members of the Blue Mango... party during which we learned that a third member was also leaving next month, so we had another going-away party on Friday, where we actually convinced the restaurant owner to...

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Tags: food, blue, music, mango, brochetti, restaurant, musician, landfill, ma brochetti, party

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14 juillet 2014

Hiking around Saziley

Hiking around Saziley

Sunday was a rather hectic day. First, it was the day two of the musicians from the Blue Mango were leaving Mayotte, one forever, the other for a holiday. The one who was leaving forever hadn't been able to come to our last going-away party and I had...

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Tags: island, mayotte, food, water, black, white, beach, sand, friend, walk, stones, hike, saziley

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7 juillet 2014

HLM

This is a Mahorese multi-storey building. There seems to be just one on the island. I don't think anyone actually lives there: I see it as more of an attraction than anything else, for the following reason. A sign in front explains that photographs cost...

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Tags: mayotte, house, photo, banga, curious

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30 juin 2014

Graffiti in M'Gombani

Graffiti in M'Gombani

These are the resulting photos of my graffiti project around M'Gombani, a small village to the south of Mamoudzou. I took photos like these around three villages in total. The idea was to show my kids the difference between artistic graffiti, street art...

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Tags: mayotte, stadium, street, court, art, basketball, degradation, graffiti, seahorse, symbol, tag, vandalism

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23 juin 2014

Les Bigoudènes En Folie

Les Bigoudènes En Folie

It's tyre-racing time. The Bretons of Mayotte have two teams, one all-female, one all-male. The leader of the Bretons works in the police station and usually manages to rope in a team of policemen/women. He'd managed it last year, and had seemed to manage...

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Tags: girl, t-shirt, tyres, bretons, tyre racing, soap, flag, stick, sport, team, five, headdress

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16 juin 2014

Music

I've been playing quite a bit of music recently. On May 31st, I was roped in to play "film music", which was a new one for me. Mostly cartoon themes such as Some Day My Prince Will Come, Popeye or The Bare Necessities, but the odd tune from films such...

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Tags: food, school, blue, bretons, music, mango, concert, dance, folk, pancakes, film

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