"The flour is orange..."

 I repeat: "the flour is orange.”

   At this time of year, it doesn’t rain, but this doesn’t mean that the sun will shine down every day. Actually, near 5pm, the sky is often covered with a slight veil, which improves the poolside reading conditions. I’m always asking myself how these people go about just sitting and roasting in the sun. It heats and burns! Staying tanned in winter I can understand, and looking healthy is good, but to walk around in your boxers, at work or at family dinners, to show off the tan, I can’t imagine.

We’re above the Sahara … broadly speaking, and in this winter season, and more particularly February, there occurs the occasional sandstorm which hits us in the face … and in the mouth for that matter. It’s incredible, we wake up one morning, the wind is blowing and the sun has disappeared though with no clouds in sight… Yeah actually without anything in sight, not even the coast in front of us, Barra which we normally see so well and is only a few kilometres away.

  I took these two photos at two days interval but at about the same time (around 10am). At a short distance, the atmosphere is clear, but at only 50 meters, we see this orange veil which covers all and which invades all as well. The guys have a large task cleaning as everything is covered in orange flour. I had to close the windows of the suite for the first time as the anti-mosquito grilles are not flour-proof. It’s best to avoid large efforts as we find ourselves eating some as well! Luckily, it lasts no more than 2 or 3 days and in the middle of the day, the sun pierces through to keep the holidaymakers happy.