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Mauritius book run

I bought three books in Mauritius at Bookcourt, a store in the Caudan Waterfront mall. The other was a freebie I took from our hotel’s

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A tour of Mauritius

Mark and I had originally booked our tour of Mauritius for Thursday, February 27, yet understandably it was cancelled on account of tropical cyclone Garance.

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Réunion book run

I visited two bookstores in Saint-Denis. I stopped into Gérard first. They had a wide selection of books for tourists yet were disappointedly lacking in

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Arriving in Réunion

Mark and I flew to Réunion from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on February 21. The flight was 10½ hours long, which was the

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Waswanipi

Waswanipi by Jean-Yves Soucy (translated by Peter McCambridge) was a brief memoir about the author’s time spent in a Cree community southeast of James Bay

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