Show me the way to Port Louis

Yes we have some bananas!

The capital of Mauritius is a busy town called Port Louis. Everybody speaks French over here but curiously they all pronounce the 's' at the end of Louis. One of the sights to see is 'The Markets' - this is a little bit Asian and a little bit African with lots of interesting fruit and veg and all sorts of souvenirs including Dodos. There are wood carvings of Dodos, pottery figures of Dodos, Dodo table cloths, you name it it's got a Dodo on it. And bananas - this stall had quite a variety of different types of bananas - we like the small yellow fleshed sweet tasty ones!

Can you see what I see?

Port Louis traffic was fairly thick - around 5 pm, the centre seemed totally grid locked. However we got back in the car about 5.30 pm to find the traffic moving freely again. This was rather helpful as we had then to follow some rather vague directions in our search for the Flying Dodo. In the town centre there's a small park planted many years ago with Banyan trees (ficus bengalensis). They've grown a bit since then as you can see. This particular tourist was clearly intoxicated with the view!

Good ale is not extinct.

And here's the Flying Dodo. Having limited ourselves to the local Phoenix beer for a few days (mainly because there was nothing else on offer) it was a pleasant surprise to find the Lambic Restaurant, one of two outlets for the products of the Flying Dodo microbrewery. Not very well signposted, we drove past it on the one way system without spotting it first time round. However once inside we found a handpump with a Fuller's London Pride clip on it. This was just for show and therefore we sampled a pint of the Flying Dodo Blonde Ale; just the one as we didn't want to become intoxicated at this early hour.