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Trip Start Apr 11, 2007
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Trip End Apr 27, 2007


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Friday, April 27, 2007

Our heroes' last day here and they started it off right: with croissants and CNN for breakfast!  Yummy!  Their next challenge was to get rid of all our Malagasy Ariary because they don't allow you to change it back into hard currency like pound sterling on either side of the border, so they thought they'd be practical and start off by paying their bills and then blowing the rest on kaggelkak.  So, C went to settle the one-and-a-half-minute phone call to her mom with their remaining loose change and had to duly return to the room to retrieve some actual hard currency, as their total was substantially more than they had been quoted...  But hey, no hard feelings: because of the unforeseen additional Ariary, C had an absolutely fabulous last day trinket shopping at the fleamarkets!  [This time actually returning with some trinkets]
 
They couldn't leave before saying goodbye to their favourite Patisserie for lunch [croc monsieur & jambon croissant] and then headed towards the airport- shaking off dusty child-beggars and haggling down the taxi driver's original price with expertise.   
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As they joined the masses of South African holidaymakers in the queue at the airport, they knew their honeymoon was officially over.
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Interestingly enough, back in the UK and would you know it, their taxi driver claims to have been shipwrecked in Madagascar in the 1940s.  Apparently he was stuck on the eastern coast near Tamatave and caught Coelacanth to eat!  No way!
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