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2 février 2015

Brugge

On my last day in Lille, H had to work all day, so I dropped him off at his school, planning to go back down to Lille and across to Roubaix, where I'd heard there was an interesting exhibition about Camille Claudel as well as 500 or so wool soldiers that...

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Tags: house, shop, photo, camera, museum, trip, visit, bike, fountain, horse, travel, chocolate, day, lille, belgium, beer, architecture, bruges, brugge, canal

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27 octobre 2014

Ngazidja

"Salam aleikoum." "Aleikoum salam. Gawamnono?" "Ndjema, hamdulillah!" I've just got back from a week's holiday in Ngazidja, the largest of the four Comoros islands. They are known as Ngazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli), Ndzuani (Anjouan) and Maoré...

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Tags: island, mayotte, house, holiday, shop, construction, anjouan, painting, comoros, volcano, grande comore, hamdulillah, mitsamiouli, mohéli, moroni, mwali, ndzuani, ngazidja, salam aleikoum, site

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14 avril 2014

Majicavo

The village I live in is called Majicavo. Literally, it means "where there is no water". Like all Mahorese villages, it's a very poor place, but near enough to the capital (Mamoudzou) for people to want to be modern and Westernized. Also like all Mahorese...

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Tags: mayotte, house, emily, shop, town, village, camera, kids, concrete, corrugated, iron, mosque, shack, douka, majicavo

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24 février 2014

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...

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Tags: mayotte, ladies, postcard, scooter, supermarket, shop, boueni, balance, street, head

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30 décembre 2013

Sleeping Bouéni

In England or France, shopkeepers and shop assistants are always on their toes. And on yours, half of the time. They're always alert, they're always looking for something to offer you to make you stay a little longer and buy something else. They'll say...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, shop, bouéni, market, sleep, customer, douka, service

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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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