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Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.
9 juin 2014

Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust
Each village in Mayotte has its own football club. Some of the most famous are the Mtsamboro Bees, the Mzouazia Twins, the Rosador of Passamaïnty and the Southern Miracle. And without fail, during the dry season, all matches are played amid clouds of...
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26 mai 2014

Kids

Kids
Adults in Mayotte don't really like the camera lens. There is a belief that being photographed removes a part of your soul, but it's usually closer to not liking white tourists taking photos of "locals" doing "local things". Which is fair enough and perfectly...
8 mai 2014

Salouva Deba

Salouva Deba
Most Mahorese women dress in a salouva, which is a big cotton tube knotted around the chest and which falls down to the feet. Underneath the salouva, they usually wear a sparkly t-shirt, or one with artistically cut-out pieces made to resemble flowers...
21 avril 2014

Strange food they have here.

Strange food they have here.
These are banana flowers. They grow on the ends of big banana bunches like below. You have a hundred or so bananas spiralling downwards, and a big purple flower on the end. Lots of people eat yellow bananas. Here, green bananas are a vegetable like any...
31 mars 2014

Hellen

Hellen
The weather was pretty grotty this weekend, so I haven't been out much. In fact, Mayotte was placed under "strong rain warning" on Thursday evening, because a depression was forming in the Mozambique channel, along the coast of Mozambique. On Saturday...
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10 mars 2014

The rain in Mamoudzou falls down, soaks the road and makes big potholes.

The rain in Mamoudzou falls down, soaks the road and makes big potholes.
We're slowly getting towards the end of the rainy season. It's been raining pretty much every day, but not all day though, just an hour or two at a time. The rain has - as usual - dug gaping holes in the roads, it's a right mess. Some of the roads I take...
24 février 2014

Put it on your head.

Put it on your head.
A series of rather interesting postcards has been released recently. They're all drawings of scenes in Mayotte. My favourite is the one above, as it's a mixture of two scenes I come across very regularly. Scooters here aren't just a quick way of getting...
6 février 2014

The Box.

The Box.
Sent: 06 January 2014. Received: 03 February 2014. Not too bad. Boxes and parcels always take about a month. Except that this particular one was coming from the UK, which the Mahorese customs weren't too sure about. They sent me a letter the week before...
3 février 2014

Total Jumbo Strike

Total Jumbo Strike
There are two big strikes going on at the moment. And being Mayotte, where nothing really ever goes as planned, they're both worth a mention. The first - and bigger - is the Total strike. Total is the one and only petrol provider in Mayotte, the group...
28 janvier 2014

Happy Birthday Papi !

Happy Birthday Papi !
Happy Birthday Papi ! Lots of love, Em xxx
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