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

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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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 mars 2013

The North from East to West

When P was here, he wanted to see if his scooter still worked. As I hadn't gone anywhere near it for the past few months, it didn't start. P pulled bits of it out and put it all back together, gave it some petrol and kept trying, and it started a couple...

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Tags: island, mayotte, house, green, scooter, shop, beach, village, philip, bamboo, north, animal, building, concrete, corrugated, iron, mosque, sheep

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22 octobre 2012

Turtling

We've had friends from France over this week. This is the first time people have come into my flat to stay, but everything went well. After taking them to a beach near our flat for starters, we went to N'Gouja beach to go turtle-hunting. N'Gouja is about...

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Tags: mayotte, green, black, barrier, coral, beach, sea, friend, swim, turtle, hawksbill, moya, ngouja, seagrass

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26 mars 2012

Dziani Dzaha

One really nice thing about Mayotte is that the distances are short, so you don't need to travel for a long time to go anywhere. The beaches are very close to the towns. Our nearest beach can be reached on foot. It's not a terribly nice one, so we usually...

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Tags: island, mayotte, green, lagoon, water, walk, dziani, lake, buffalo, eye, petite terre, randonnée

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25 septembre 2011

Cooking

What happened when we went to the market ! Tomatoes, coconuts, green bananas, peppers, yellow bananas, papayas, cassavas. After having trailed as many times as humanly possible round the two local supermarkets – one of which is a large one with pretty...

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Tags: banana, breadfruit, cassava, food, fruit, glue, green, jackfruit, latex, papaya, pepper, slices, tomato, vegetable, yellow

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