After making a brash exit from St Denis – the provincial capital of the French overseas département of La Réunion – the RN1 widens westwards into an anxious dual carriageway road, complete with worrying warning signs and dazzling danger lights. Thus alerted, it penetrates into a skinny coastal strip of strewn boulders that runs in the shadow of an imposing stand of sea-cliffs. (more…)
February 27, 2008
February 26, 2008
The Good Galleon
Stepping gingerly on Saturday around the dog dejections on the way back from La Poste, I found myself walking in the wake of an African lady. She was sheltering her considerable bulk under a multicoloured headscarf that had been wrapped about her noble prow in such a way as to make her seem taller than she really was. (more…)
February 14, 2008
Valentine’s End
Tis that time of year again. Today another bloom on the Valentine’s bush will drop to the ground and join the dust of yesteryear.
How many false I love you’s are circulating today? How much ephemeral desire evacuated? (more…)
