Shopping for groceries on this island is really an entertaining experience. In Mauritius what you buy one week, may or may not be on the store shelves the next week. It all depends on what ships make it past the pirates, the storms and the political unrest.
Our container of personal goods, for example, was delayed by almost [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pirates’
Something salty this way comes
Posted in Mauritius, tagged Container, Expat, Mauritius, Pirates, Sea, Shopping, Spices on Monday, August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PART I – Me, the Drunk Sailor and the Rastafarian
Posted in Mauritius, tagged Container, Expat, Mauritius, Pirates, Proprietor on Monday, August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You have got to be kidding me. What great cosmic karma fault did I commit to have what seems like multiple lifetimes of sheer chaos dumped on me all at once? For over two months I waited patiently. For over two months I identified insects and flora in the backyard while lazily tiptoeing around with [...]
Overboard?
Posted in Mauritius, tagged Container, Expat, Mauritius, Pirates, Sea on Monday, July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My aunt in Texas dared to tell little-miss-worry-me that the ship carrying our container of goods from America would arrive safe and sound with the tiny exception that our container would happen to fall overboard. Well, perhaps it has.
On May 15th all of our processions were packed into sealed crates and placed into a moving [...]
