St. Denis, Reunion

Next morning, April 4. we were already at a port in Reunion, which is a French overseas department. As a curiosity I can tell you that here in this tiny island in the Indian Ocean, the new currency, then over 10 years ago, Euro was introduced as first in the world. I had booked an excursion to the capital of the island, St.Denis.
After arrival there I however as always did choose my own ways, leaving the group.
I was after getting map criscrossing the city of 120,000 inhabitants ( whole Reunion about 800,000 ). I fell in love with St.Denis. Here I could live the rest of my life !!It just was so symphatetic and nice. I then found a fine looking restaurant
" Roland Garros ", which was named after a local WWI pilot hero. His bronce statue of 1;1 size about was standing nearby. I ordered a boef de tartar, a great delicasy of mine, and got the best ever. Very pretty young lady served me, and I hoped I could have stayed longer. The whole thing with chips, salad and a garaffe of red wine
was all together 19,80 euros.
Goodbye St.Denis ! Maybe we'll see again ?

Mauritius, Ile aux Cerfs

Mauritius was all about I had been thinking. Beautiful island, lots of possibilities to try to do, great hotels, gorgeous beaches and friendly people. We were there just at the end of Summer season but were lucky with the weather, which still at the arrival in the morning did not look very promising with heavy rains. But when we reached our excursion goal Ile aux Cerfs, said to be one of the most beautiful beaches of the world, the sun was gayly smiling from the cloudless sky. We, a part of the cruise guests, about 100, enjoyed these moments of our life absolutely fully.
We stayed there for five hours having also a marvellous barbeque buffet with exotic salads. Then back to the ship againa.