I'm back with another installment of Julie's Adventures in Mada, loyal readers! This edition finds your plucky heroine in Fort Dauphin. Well, not that plucky, to be fair, because after hearing ever worse reports of how bad the taxi brousse journey from Toliara to Fort Dauphin is currently (latest report: five days solid of playing sardines, I kid you not, for a 400km journey), I decided for the sake of my already tenous grip on sanity to splash out on a flight. The ticket was €85, which was certainly pushing it a bit, but I was due to meet Clare and James in Fort Dauphin on the 19th, so in my view it was certainly the lesser of two evils. The chances are that five days squished into a taxi brousse - 120hours, for the less
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