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

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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19 mars 2012

Fish and Chips

We ate out this lunchtime. This is fish and chips. Red tuna - I know, it's a protected species in the Atlantic, but it isn't here - in a spicy vanilla sauce with little bits of vanilla pod. Bon appétit :). Ingredients (Serving Size : 4) : 4 fillets of...

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Tags: mayotte, food, rice, fish, chips, lunch, tuna, vanilla, recipe

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1 mars 2012

What Emily Did

Several things have happened at school recently. The second term has just finished, so we’ve been having conseils de classe, end-of-term reunions of all the teachers for each class plus two class-elected students. It’s a time to see how each student’s...

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Tags: indian ocean, mayotte, death, boat, sea, inspection, students, anjouan, clandestine, immigration, kwassa

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22 février 2012

The Motorbike Saga Continues

I've had fifteen hours of motorbike lessons so far, and have reached the stage where I'm working hard at it and not feeling I'm actually getting anywhere. There's a circuit you have to do for the test at a very slow speed, as you have to drive through...

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Tags: mayotte, temperature, emily, lesson, motorbike, driving school, helmet, jacket, track

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12 février 2012

Madame, la pluie, elle tombe!

Talk about keeping things for a rainy day. There are so many rainy days here – and so much rain – that I don’t know what to do with most of them. Some do, though. There’s construction work outside at the moment – just underneath our flat, actually – where...

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Tags: mayotte, flat, water, rain, philip, crepi, curtain, rainbow, table, television, wall

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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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10 janvier 2012

Happy New Year to all

P and I spent Christmas and New Year with my favourite people this year. When I got back, I was invited to a friend’s birthday party, where I was informed that I must be crazy to voluntarily spend any length of time in such a cold place when I live in...

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Tags: humidity, mayotte, cat, electricity, strike, boat, music, christmas, 2012, concentration, family, mould, new year, tree

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15 décembre 2011

Bouéni Jolie

You often see girls and women here with m’zindzano on their faces. It’s a beauty mask made from sandalwood ground on a pure coral table, mixed with a little water. The table is made of one piece of coral, and often weighs 3 or 4 kilograms. It is the fine...

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Tags: mayotte, ceremony, coral, mask, photo, beauty, boueni, mdzindzano, jewellery, cosmetic, mzindzano, paste, sandalwood, skin

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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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