Previously the only souce of Info we had when a cyclone was approaching was the Mauritius Meteorological services but now things have changed, we don’t need to have our ears glued to the radio; and we have the Internet.
Trajectories
Here’s a list of sites providing info, tracking and trajectory simulation:
Joint Typhoon Warning Center Products [...]
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Have u heard of the $100 laptop? It’s a wonderful small PC conceived at the MIT lab for developped countries and it is going to be shipped as from this year.
You could wonder: What would u get for $100 (roughly Rs 4000)? But man it’s a real deal; this machine is jammed packed with [...]
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Posted in Rodrigues on January 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The Cotton Bay hotel is situated in Pointe Cotton, on the north east coast of Rodrigues.
Last time i’ve been there was around 15 years ago and it hasn’t changed a bit; the service is just as good as it used to be and the hotel is as quiet as ever (except for the swimming pool) [...]
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Posted in Mauritius, Rodrigues on January 1, 2007 | No Comments »
This is the supposedly “second” main attraction of the island but I beg to differ!
Cavernes Patates is a cave that winds its way for 600m underground. The western part of Rodrigues seems to be of coralian formation - I have no confirmation of that; it’s just a guess.
The cave is nice to visit, there are [...]
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Posted in Mauritius, Rodrigues on January 1, 2007 | No Comments »
This has got to be the nicest place you can go to in Rodrigues.
It’s a small island about 3 - 4 km off the west coast of Rodrigues and by pirogue, you’ll take about 45 mins - the time required to catch 2 fish - to reach there (depending on the tide of course).
The main [...]
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Posted in Mauritius, Rodrigues on December 31, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Just spent 3 days in Rodrigues with Begum, Sonu and Visoushee. We landed on the Wednesday the 27th at around 10 pm and came back Saturday the 30th at 11:30 pm - it was veryu nice and relaxing; we spent 2 nights at Cotton Bay (where everything is as usual so nice) and a [...]
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