Rock, paper, scissor those thighs

A few weeks ago I joined a gym at one of the nearby resorts.  It’s not really an open gym that advertises for members, but more the type where you have to know someone to know about it.
I decided to join because I have a bit more free time than I’m used to having.  To [...]

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Salmonella strikes at snack shack

Salmonella at KFC
Yesterday, the front pages of two of the larger circulated newspapers here (L’express & Le Matinal) featured articles about the recent salmonella outbreak that was just discovered at the island’s KFC locations.
KFC is very popular here.  While there is only one McDonald’s, there are over a dozen KFCs.  I think the heavy Hindi [...]

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Cyclone, cyclone. Here comes the cyclone.

We just finished the first cyclone of the season. It was named ‘Gael’ and was a class 2 here in Mauritius. I had no clue that it was coming or when it ended, for that matter. Everything about it was kind of ‘ack! ack! ohm….’
The day it was going to [...]

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