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13 janvier 2014

Pink bags and blue boxes

In Mayotte, people don't fret about big travel bags, careful packaging, luggage straps and padlocks. They don't worry about their big black case being indistinguishable from everybody else's big black cases on the luggage carousel. They don't bother repackaging...

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Tags: france, mayotte, box, england, trip, cooler, ice, luggage, plane, travel

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6 janvier 2014

Overseas Women

There was a national photography competition in France not long ago, whose title was: "Overseas Women". As the Mahorese people didn't like the results, saying they weren't representative enough of women in the French overseas territories, they had their...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, women, photo, work, hair, computer, ferry, jasmine, smartphone

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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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16 décembre 2013

Idiots

I read an article the other day which began like this : "When you’re driving, everybody else on the road is an idiot and it’s your job to watch out". In Mayotte, driving is more than just a daily occurrence aiming to get a person from point A to point...

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Tags: mayotte, car, road, driving, idiot

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18 novembre 2013

Striking Teachers.

Before the school holidays, the French authorities started talking about their civil servants. Specifically the civil servants working overseas. As you already know, all French civil servants receive bonuses for working in the French overseas territories...

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Tags: mayotte, school, teacher, strike, money, euro, room, staff, bonus, civil servant, compensation, distance, headmistress, paper, pension, tax, thousand

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11 novembre 2013

Breton Rock

I've been playing quite a bit of music recently. You see, a group I'd never met and I were hired for a "Breton rock concert" at a bar. We were hired on Sunday. The concert was to be on the following Friday. The group was already formed, and I was supposed...

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Tags: mayotte, bretons, guitar, music, recorder, test, violin, group, keyboard, improvisation, bass, best, café, drums, rock, transposition

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4 novembre 2013

Chicken wings again

Mayotte is a French department and therefore receives all the French adverts. The TV adverts stay exactly the same, advertising things that haven't made it as far as Mayotte yet, but the paper adverts are tailored to local taste, one might say. You might...

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Tags: mayotte, chicken wings, mabawas, advertising, telephone, orange

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28 octobre 2013

Dipé Chaoula

A restaurant menu in Mamoudzou's main shopping street. Kebab Today's Special Panini Sandwich Salad Hamberger (complete with spelling mistake) Round Thing Find the odd one out. (And no, the restaurant was closed, so we didn't get to taste it).

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, food, restaurant, dipé chaoula, hamburger, menu, panini, sandwich, shopping street, special, thing, today

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28 octobre 2013

Wedding Dances

Last Saturday, something rather exceptional happened. The Blue Mango, my music group, is followed around by the Dancing Lizards, who are a group of folk dancers who come to all our concerts to dance. One of these dancers is a Comorian lad called Halidi,...

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Tags: mayotte, food, rice, blue, accordion, guitar, music, mango, pilao, flowers, dance, wedding, violin, jasmine, bride, groom, meat, necklace, salad, samoussa

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