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17 mars 2014

Hey to the Ferry.

P came over during my half-term holidays to spend a week in Mayotte with me. During that week, we played a lot of music and we ate out several times. It was on one of these times that something rather interesting happened. The restaurant we wanted to...

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Tags: dzaoudzi, mamoudzou, mayotte, holiday, emily, boat, philip, restaurant, ferry, salama djema, delay, engine

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12 août 2013

Consuegra

South of Madrid lies Consuegra, where Don Quijote's windmills stand on a ridge. Twelve windmills, some of them broken, allegedly by Don Quijote himself. Spain is obsessed with Don Quijote, as there are picture and sculptures everywhere, every village...

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Tags: emily, philip, trip, spain, consuegra, visit, windmills

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13 mai 2013

When in Spain...

I went to Madrid during the half-term holidays to visit P, who was transferred there for his job last December. I'd never been to the capital city before, so that was a very interesting experience. On top of trying to speak Spanish, I learnt a few things...

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Tags: food, holiday, teacher, emily, philip, learn, trip, madrid, spain, palace, shoes, spanish, week

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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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18 mars 2013

Moving House

When P and I came to Mayotte on August 15th 2011, we had only known for a short while that we - I, at any rate - would be moving at all. I remember searching the Internet for possible flats or flat shares, hunting all around the area of the island my...

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Tags: mayotte, flat, sun, philip, cupboard, move, clean, shelves, shutters, tired

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3 décembre 2012

Saying Goodbye to Philippe

Before P left, we had a party with the music group and the dancers to say goodbye. Every two weeks, the main dancer holds a dance workshop at his home, where anyone who so wishes can turn up and learn a few traditional dancers. Usually, a couple of musicians...

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Tags: mayotte, food, accordion, music, recorder, philip, dance, violin, percussion, bamboo, mahorese, seed, wine

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10 septembre 2012

Sea's out.

Last weekend, yet another beautiful day, how tiring ;). School has been back for three weeks, so like every other teacher on the island, we went to the beach. At low tide. Very low tide. So low that we could actually walk right up to the coral reef drop-off,...

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Tags: mayotte, water, school, emily, coral, fish, sea, philip, tide

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4 juin 2012

Radio Tour de l'Île ! Infos, quizz, musique, fun !

Over the Pentecost week-end, a friend of ours was participating in the Tour de l'Île, a sailing boat tour of the larger of Mayotte's two islands. He told us that he does this every year, and that he usually ends up being the only one playing music on...

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Tags: island, mayotte, cat, food, water, emily, beach, boat, sea, pilao, philip, tour, knots, ropes, sailing

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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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