La Piscine Hotel Mahajanga

"Song Sung Blue" - Neil Diamond Song sung blue, everybody knows one Song sung blue, every garden grows one Me and you are subject to The blues now and then But when you take the blues And make a song You sing 'em out again You sing 'em out again Song sung blue, weeping like a willow Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow Funny thing, But you can sing it with a cry in your voice And before you know it get to feeling good You ...

Well Rose and I are back in Mahajanga bringing our travels in Madagascar to a close. Thankfully we were able to find a host family and are spending our last days here hanging out with some wonderful local people!! They are teaching us some amazing Malagasy dishes (fresh coconut fish stew anybody?? yum!!) and tomorrow in return we are making them some good old American corn bread, chili, and brownies!! After spending a day in Tana upon our 20 hour return ...

Madagascar Madagascar The Arabs used to call it "the Island of the Moon," when they colonized it centuries ago. My family called it the last footprint to the end of the world, the final drop in a shimmering strand of pearls seeping down towards the edge of the earth. There is nothing around Madagascar, except vast stretches of the rolling sea, the sky rushing above, and the eternal wind. The wind carried the scent of Asia from the northeast, of cumin and saffron and curry, of ...