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28 septembre 2011

Never ask a question if you don't want to know the answer.

Emily and the Car Saga 20th August. Search for car and scooter on used car newspapers and specialist garages. 23rd August. Find white 3-door air-conditioned 206 HDI through newspaper. Visit car two blocks away, test-drive car, the odd funny noise and...

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Tags: mayotte, 125, 206, battery, car, emily, five minutes, garage, light, newspaper, scooter, tyres

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27 septembre 2011

Whales

I went on a “whale safari” with a few colleagues last week. There are often whales and dolphins in the lagoon, but not this day, so we went right out of the lagoon and up to the north of the island. The trip itself took about an hour and a half by reinforced...

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Tags: indian ocean, island, mayotte, colleague, jaws, lagoon, safari, splash, water, whale

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26 septembre 2011

Birds and Beasts

The first animals we saw upon getting out of the plane were zebus. Cow-like four-legged creatures with a bump on the back of their neck where they store water and fat for later. They stared at us, we stared at them and wondered where on earth we had ended...

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Tags: island, mayotte, flat, banana, bat, gecko, hotel, margouillat, roussette, zebu

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25 septembre 2011

Dress codes

At the airport The traditional dress here is called a salouva, and they have a turban on their head, known as a kishali, often just worn as a scarf over the head. It’s all very colourful, though probably not terribly practical. Salouvas are made from...

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Tags: mayotte, airport, ceremony, clothes, dress, girl, heat, kishali, ladies, mbiwi, salouva, scarf, skirt, t-shirt, women, wrap

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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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24 août 2011

School has started.

School started today, with the teachers getting together and meeting the heads. Quite an exotic-looking school, with coconut trees and banana trees growing in the playgrounds. The rooms themselves are pretty run-down, with flaking paint, windows that...

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Tags: mamoudzou, clothes, kishali, salouva, black, canteen, class, holiday, kawéni, mzungu, pupils, school, teacher

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13 août 2011

Everything Must Go

Preparing to leave for a long time in a foreign country is easier than I thought it would be, actually. That’s before you get there and realise you’ve forgotten your driving license, clean socks and cats, who should be wailing their way round Paris airport...

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Tags: mayotte, box, cat, deadline, flat, furniture, house, stuff

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10 août 2011

Numbers

Mayotte, Maoré or Jazirat al Mawet (the Island of Death - very reassuring) is the 101st French department, as from May 2011. It's a collection of several small islands in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar. Its total population is 209 530 mostly spread...

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Tags: department, dzaoudzi, flight, france, humidity, indian ocean, island, jazirat al mawet, mamoudzou, maoré, mayotte, temperature

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