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21 avril 2014

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...

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Tags: island, mayotte, banana, food, green, yellow, tree, flowers, plants, bunch, cooking, reunion, stew

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28 octobre 2013

Wedding Dances

Last Saturday, something rather exceptional happened. The Blue Mango, my music group, is followed around by the Dancing Lizards, who are a group of folk dancers who come to all our concerts to dance. One of these dancers is a Comorian lad called Halidi,...

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Tags: mayotte, food, rice, blue, accordion, guitar, music, mango, pilao, flowers, dance, wedding, violin, jasmine, bride, groom, meat, necklace, salad, samoussa

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26 août 2013

A Week In England

Apparently, when in Cornwall, one of the main things to visit is the Eden Project. So visit the Eden Project we did. It's the very interesting story of a clay pit which has been transformed into a living and growing area covered with various plants representing...

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Tags: green, mum, flowers, nanny, england, compton acres, cornwall, eden project, newquay, papi, poole, channel, surf, surfing

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25 février 2013

Pretty Yellow Flowers

Yesterday, I went with the association I play music for to a farming establishment which I'd heard about before, because one of the owners has a stall at the big monthly market where she sells fruit, vegetables, juice, jam, ylang-ylang essential oil and...

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Tags: mayotte, banana, papaya, bretons, mahorais, tree, ylang, flowers, distillery, cultivate, essential oil, farm, height, peas, pick, smell

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27 août 2012

Charming flora and fauna

A brief review of some of the various animals and plants we've seen during my first year in Mayotte. These photos do not come close to showing what it's really like, and I haven't taken photos of everything. Please bear in mind that all these animals...

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Tags: banana, zebu, coconut, flowers, beetle, bird, grasshopper, lizard, plants, water buffalo

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19 février 2012

Mahabou and M'Gombani

This Sunday afternoon was lovely and fine, so we set off to walk up and around the Pointe Mahabou, a cliff on the other side of Mamoudzou where the very first sultan of Mayotte, Adriansouli, was buried. Other cars were driving up, so I started driving...

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Tags: mamoudzou, sun, road, brochetti, flowers, m'gombani, mahabou, maoulida, park, restaurant, shengue, signpost, state, walk

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