Sunny Hotel Antananarivo

There is a great little bungalow on the beach in Fort Dauphin owned by Brett (telephone 0330 221 265 or email dadamanga@live.com), which is amazing. It's teh guest house of a private home of an Australian who has lived in Madagascar for ten years and can advise you on all your tours), right on the beach (with private stairs ...

... time were the only remaining two making the lonely trip around the conveyor belt. Our trolley is finally pointed in the direction of customs hall! Now please remember if you will that we had our luggage plastic wrapped in South Africa. The Malagasy official at customs, found this highly suspicious - we obviously had something to declare: he fired at me: "Are you carrying drugs?" And without hesitation to my partner "A pistol?" !! With barely time to draw ...

... whether that is so good. Child abuse is of course no-no. A pity: the colorful flower market, we saw here yesterday, is not on Monday. We walk to the island with the 'monument aux mort' dedicated to the victims of the second world war. By then, the sun goes down, so we go back to our hotel for a meal. It is NOT recommended to walk around in the city after dark. Tomorrow is check out time for Nosy Be: new adventures, I am sure! We booked ...

... the land of Christianity. She mostly managed to do so by martyring many of them. By 1863 control had mostly moved to the prime minister who had shrewdly married 3 consecutive queens!<br> <br>In 1883 the French attacked and occupied the main ports eventually imposing their rule in 1895. An uprising by the malagasy people in 1947 was bloodily repressed by the French (some 80,000 are said to have died) but eventually in 1960 the country achieved full independence.

... slogans sometimes don't translate quite the same. In China, Pepsi's 2000 slogan, "Pepsi- The choice of a new generation" directly translated into Cantonese as "Pepsi- Brings back your dead ancestors." The word Pinto, as in the Ford brand car, is Brazilian slang for "tiny male genitals", and Frank Perdue's slogan "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" got translated into Spanish as "It takes a hard ...

Last Tuesday my roommate and I received a call from Peace Corps that a hurricane (cyclone) was near. They said it was supposed to hit Wednesday but wouldn't be that strong. They wanted us to pack a bag and stay somewhere else though. Our house is a huge wooden shack mansion on the beach, we call it The Estate. It's big, but even when there's a nice balmy breeze, it can get a little shaky. Normally Peace Corps calls us a week in ...

Wonderful comfortable weather. Just booked a 6 day river trip westward to the coast and the town of Morondava, therefore communication should be nil for awhile. After that I will likely fly to Tulear. Half the island cling to traditionql religions and the other half have converted to Christianity. Had the Gideon New Testament in my room last night.

... other way. I did reap some benefits of the campaigning, however. A few weeks ago I went to school only to be told it was cancelled that day because the president was going to come and speak. I, or course, could not go. Four hours after he was supposed to show up, helicopters shook our house and landed at the soccer field near by. The president spoke for about 15 minutes and then took off again. It seemed like a lot of commotion for such a short visit, but it was a nice to have a day ...

... town, the road becomes steep and we go through a reforested area of eucalyptus &amp; pine. We lock our bikes to a nearby tree, out of breath from the ascent, and walk down the other side of the hill (it is too steep even for a bicycle) to a small footpath that takes us to the site of the tree nursery. The landscape here is amazing (except for the one hillside cut and burned to grow cassava). The only house in view is on the opposite hillside, a small wooden hut that Maxim's ...

... myself there again... It's Monday and by this afternoon when left for the airport I had started planning ways I can justify living in Paris again... we'll see...(in the immortal words of... ) with a proper job though... or in-between proper jobs.... But it has to be more than an enthusiastic digression ....Oooh I'm flying over Cairo! My itunes is very quiet and its annoying me... I'm not going to tell u what I'm listening to because then you won't ...