Sand Pointe

... 'ois, Pointe des Châteaux, Le Moule, Pointe de la Grande Vigie and Port-Louis (excellent diving spot). Pointe des Chateaux (Castles Point) Situated at the most eastern part of the island its spectacular views draw many visitors, ...

... it a month or two later. I’ll end this update with the funny tale of my trip back to France. I was flying from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville (I didn’t know there was a direct flight between Brazza and Paris (duh…), then Brazza to Paris and ...

... his legs with the incoming tide. This morning we tried a new fish market on Magali's recommendation (she of the other Pointe-Noire blog, working on the Pointe-Noire survival guide website, and our substitute teacher-new best friend) and picked up some ...

This weekend was the first one in a month or so that we actually spent time at home, usually we try to get out of Pointe-Noire for Sunday at the very least.  But this weekend we stayed in town.  Saturday we visited with two lovely ex-pat ...

... , to preserve their privacy; after all, it is their home.  Women in beautiful clothes and stiletto heels making their way through sand piles and heaps of trash with aplomb and élan.  Sometimes the post works, but mostly it doesn't, there is no ...

... to find a toilet that won't flush, no toilet paper, soap or towels.  I usually carry tp around in my purse along with sand-sanitizer.  If I can’t wash my hands, then neither can the waitress or cook.  I can’t figure out if it ...

... nbsp; It is ideal in that the beach is nowhere in sight, so the kids play amiably with the mangoes hanging down from the trees and the sand and the toys.  When we want to go down to the water it's just a three-minute walk down the sandy steps to the ...

... and swimming.  We live right down from the beach but the surf is formidable and it is often crowded, lots of trash on the sand and no one really swims there.  However about a half an hour away is place called Motombe, where the water is mellow ...

... week with the boys and their full-sized shovels. They got busy using them as levers, trying to roll a six-foot log down the sand into the water. The waves kept pushing it back up the slope. They kept at it for a good twenty minutes, occasionally ...

... The boys and I had a fun time at the local beach this past Sunday. They didn't bring their shovels, but they enjoyed throwing sand at the onrushing surf and darting away. It's really pretty rough most of the time, but fascinating to watch and play ...

... iron everything, lots of things shrank and now they fit!! Why do you have to dry and iron everything you ask? Chiggers. Apparently sand fleas get into your clothing and lay their eggs in the seams, you need to iron everything, even underpants, socks and ...

... in the garden and helped me cut trees, the girls were on the outside of the garden fence sweeping, yes actually sweeping the sand with brooms like all households do here.  The "living" room is fittingly located outside and every day the women ...

... had no fan, my radio decided to die, I had no credit on my phone and a little mouse ate all my favorite cereal, we had our first sand  storm of the season and I was so sick that I could not get out of bed to shut the windows and so my room was ...

... we met my father in Dakar and had a wonderful two weeks touring the coast of Senegal, relaxing on the beach to riding camels in sand dunes, mom and dad even salsa danced to sabaar drumming!  We slept in a Baobob tree and body surfed till the sun went ...

... we want women to be liberated but at the cost of including more contraptions and appliances that will only fall apart in the sand storms, I think people are lazy but part of it is that its just really fucking hot!  So what is development....?  ...