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Grand'Anse Petite-Île, 97429, Reunion
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A day at the seaside
And today it really is French influence. Hee Haw Hee Haw!!
Reunion is a Departement of France and it really does show. The infrastructure in roads, housing and industrial areas was very obviously EU money enhanced. It is the tidiest most European place we have visited in this area.
We are berthed at Le Port, south of St Dennis the capital. We opt to take the ship's shuttle to the small seaside town of St Gilles le ...
Five Buses in One Day
Five buses, say no more.
Whilst the bus services are clean and reasonably efficient, five of them is a bit much. Especially when the last was 45 minutes late, and gave us some tense, wet moments as we struggled with the concept that we might ...
Exploring the Cirque
Woke up early to a completely different vista than the day before. Sunlight drenched the hills and forests of the Cirque de Salzie, providing us with magnificent views of the rim of the ancient volcano. It is still amazing to think that we were camped in the centre of an imense natural ampitheatre, created over thousands of years by water and geological forces. We quickly prepared and downed breakfast, knowing that whilst the weather was great it can change very, ...
Rain, Rain Go Away
Sitting in Hell-Bourg, struggling with a non-Qwerty keyboard, and thoroughly exhausted from our travels on the 5th. We began with another of Reunion,s (apologies I can,t find the apostrophe on this f&*%ing keybord) long, enjoyable breakfasts, and decided to heed the weather warnings and journey to Hell-bourg, rather than tackle the further and less certain destination of Cirque de Mafate. Hell-bourg is almost ...
Reality Check & Make Believe
Part 1.
Amazing how a day (like an AFL Grand Final draw) can be one of two halves. Stephan kindly dropped us at the stop for the Car Jaune ('Yellow Car') in his tiny electrician's van, after avoiding the attention of the Gendarmerie (Rhiannon was illegally in the back with the luggage). This efficient and well-labelled service took us from the modernity of Saint Denis and deposited us in a different world. Saint Andre, whilst not a slum by any stretch of the ...



