Saturday, 31 October 2015

Day 31: All the things I didn't write

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I had a plan for the series, and yet, I feel there are so many little things I didn't talk about, or not in details anyway. I should have written about Mauritian food, the delicious meals I had the opportunity to share with my family,  and the local dishes I tasted like dholl puri, octopus...

Friday, 30 October 2015

Day 30: The Dodo bird

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This is what the Dodo may have looked like... When I first asked Fabrice about the Dodo bird, one of most famous symbol of Mauritius, all he could tell me was: "They were birds that lived on the island, the Dutch came and killed them all"... A bit too short of an explanation don't you think? ...

Thursday, 29 October 2015

Day 29: Popular Mauritian drinks

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I couldn't do a series about Mauritius and not talk about Mauritians' favourite drinks.  Phoenix is to Mauritius what Guinness is to Ireland: a national institution. It's a "golden lager" beer brewed in the country since the sixties and has an alcohol rating of 5%. I'm not a beer drinker,...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Day 28: Sugar cane

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Sugar cane is cultivated on more than 70 000 hectares of land in Mauritius. Most of the 600000 tons produced is exported to Europe, so next time you bake a cake with Demerara or Muscovado sugar, take a look at its origin, it could come from Mauritius... When you are on top the hills, you can see...

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Day 27: Breton connections

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"Breton square" in Mauritius Coming from a small village in Brittany, I was far from thinking that my place of birth would have some sort of connection with a tropical island twelve thousand miles away.  To start with, the first governor of Mauritius, Mahe de la Bourdonnais, was...

Monday, 26 October 2015

Sunday, 25 October 2015

Day 25: Interview with Pascal

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Five years ago, on one of our holidays, I decided to talk to different people about their life in Mauritius. At that stage, I had seen pretty much everything the country had to offer in terms of tourism, so I wanted to dig a bit deeper and meet locals. I could have interviewed my family  but...
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