Bringing back old memories as usual both of you, making me realise I don't even know the country I was born and raised from that well. Next time I am visiting, I will definitely be checking this area properly. Well done both.
Oh man so nostalgic this video! Port Louis was my hangout place with my friends as I went to school at the Loreto on the hill. I performed once at that awesome theatre when I was a kid!
Worked in Port Louis and always enjoyed walking from the Champ de Mars and enjoyed watching the old buildings as well. From the looks of it, this video appears to have been filmed on a Sunday given how everything is so silent.
We love your videos and your laugh is infectious! You two look like you have fun showing us around. My Durban husband and I live in Anaheim California . His parents were born & raised in Curepipe. We are planning to visit for a couple of months in Feb 2022. If we love it, we will retire there. My husband has several cousins living on the island. I’ve lived in the US my whole life but am up for an adventure in retirement. We are attracted so far to the Tamarin area. I would like to know an American or too also. Thank you for showing us the quaint out of the way spots we need to visit. Keep laughing dudes!
Mauritius does have an American embassy, maybe they can tell you where the Americans living on the island are. Tamarin is a great place to retire, but explore the whole country before making a decision, there is a lot to see. Thanks for the great comment
I always love to sit at the St-Louis Cathedral place, on the stone bench for some fresh air. In one comment of one of your videos, I remember you say you've been here for not too long. I mean by 2010, you weren't in Mauritius yet right? Before the big building Citadelle Mall was built, my neighbor the Bordie family, was living there and decided to sell the entire land. They lived in a beautiful old wooden house. Well, imagine it was very well preserved. I was sad to see it torn up little by little and see the construction of the Citadelle Mall. I took 2 or 3 pictures of the wooden house and wish I can send them to you, for you to have a sneak peak of it, how it was before the Citadelle Mall. You would have adored the old wooden family house of the Bordie family. I'm still in contact with the family and they still live nearby. I had an grand uncle who owned a little wooden shop by the time he was alive. After he passed away in 2001, unfortunately his wife-my grand aunt sold it. You would have adored it. He sold many snacks like Twisties and other things. The inside, the floor was in stone. Normally it would have been wooden floor but for my grand uncle's shop, the wall was wooden, the floor was in stone and the usual ceiling you would normally see. I too have an old scale. My grandpa used it during the time he was young. I myself have some old things and my friend always make fun of me, like I should turn my house into a museum. I have a family old rotary phone, a type machine still works, an old pendulum or grandpa clock (whatever you call it) that use a key that you need to insert, that you turn every time to make the clock work (unfortunately mine doesn't work anymore), among other things.
Thank you so much for the great comment, I have email [ bryanhags (at) gmail ] if you would like to send the pictures, I would love to see them. It sounds like you love to collect beautiful things, which is great, don't let your friends get you down. Thanks for the stories it is part of why we do this, not only to show but to learn. I have been in Mauritius since Jan 2017.
@@BryanDiscoversWorld Oh no, it's the opposite. My friend is pretty a nice guy and he jokingly said that to me just to annoy me. He himself is quite old-fashioned, he loves old things. Guess I have quite a collection. I also know an elderly man who walks around Port-Louis, he looks for antique things. For example old money at the time of Queen Elizabeth, he always asks for them cause there are people who pays a quite sum of money to buy those and collect.
I have been to the cathedral st louis few time,the building could be palais episcopal where all the work done for the catholics,i never knew about port louis prison,many thanks to you both.you are showing my country
Very nice video guys. I used to live in Port Louis and I did not know half of the places you showed us. We are also discovering how interesting people you two are. We now know Brian's nickname...Brian the dog whisperer....!
Close to the Henessy Tower ,the old wooden building ruins used to be the first hotel in Mauritius,correct me,if i'm not wrong!.anyway nice video as usual!.
Yeah at the end of the video, that big tree was a curry leaves tree. It can actually grow that big. And it’s actually really really old. I used to have one in my backyard, it was around 60years+ old until we cut it down
Fun fact : inside the cathedral there are name plate and one of them which is situated in the alter said there lies the remain of Mrs labourdonnais and her son, but also during the ceremony of ashes in 2019 i fortunately get to go upstairs the second floors of the cathedral because it was so crowded in the cathedral with other students and there were a little door next to the staircase which lead to god knows where at ? At 5:06 is where the priests lives and also you can demand to have a prayer for your birthday or a praying for someone who have died for rs 50 to the secretary in the building At 10:56 it use to be a restaurant my primary friend grand mother used to work there Also talking about paul and virginie, you should visit the blue penny museum they have a huge statue of them in one of the room and also did you know that if you have actually entered the municipal hall and got inside you will have a mini version of the same statue of paul and virginie At 11:18 before around 2018 you can actually walk on the road. If you actually go behind the jeetoo hospital you got an old building which was a hospital in the 1800's Or 1700's i actually don't know and then being converted to a primary school which my mom attend but unfortunately it is now being rebuild but you can still see the school, it was fortunately not being destroyed and also face to face with it you have a chapel who were building by a nun in the 1800 something unfortunately there are new buildings replacing it but i think the dormatory where the nun slept are the only old building remaining but just beside the chapel is my primary school, Bon secours RCA and there are few old artifact like : There actually a bell belonging to a shrinken ship whose being rung every morning to announced our morning assembly and a very old canon who were found in our school ground.
Thank you for such a great comment. I loved reading it. It is a pity the cathedral was closed, I would have loved to see inside, and better yet, get to the second floor. I wasn't sure on the priests house, thanks for that information. I think the restaurant would have been a great place to visit when it was in top form. I will have to go see the Blue Penny museum. I will have to visit you old school and the nuns dormitory. I love bells and cannons Thanks for all the fantastic information, it really does make my day to read.
@@BryanDiscoversWorld no it okay yeah it is a pity that the cathedral is closed unfortunately the second floor is not accessible to the public normally, i don't know how my teacher did make us go upstairs but if you do, there are tone of things there to do. No problem Yeah i don't know why the restaurant closed thought it is a pity. Yeah you sure do it is a very great place to visit, had gone there when i was 10 years old unfortunately you have to pay the entry fee but it is worth it there the rarest post stamp, the blue and red one with the queen on it, some maps and a lot of things. Unfortunately there is no nun anymore who are staying there now so if you do visit you should watch it near the gate but it was great place being there for my first communion when i was 8 Yeah you should do 😊
Do the legislators plan to repair all of the rundown buildings? Are there building codes? Just wondering because here those older buildings that aren't being cared for would be out of code and have to be repaired or torn down.
I've been to that derelict place so many times to update my civil status Never thought there used to be a prison right next to the supreme court and it's such a huge strategic abandoned compound
Thank you for a great video.
I am appreciating so many things taken for granted when I walked there as a kid.
Our pleasure! It is a fantastic place
Bringing back old memories as usual both of you, making me realise I don't even know the country I was born and raised from that well. Next time I am visiting, I will definitely be checking this area properly. Well done both.
Our pleasure! Thanks
Thanks for sharing that clock...priceless
I love that clock
@@BryanDiscoversWorld its not hard to fall in love with that piece of history
@@headlinesgenerator5426 agreed
Oh man so nostalgic this video! Port Louis was my hangout place with my friends as I went to school at the Loreto on the hill. I performed once at that awesome theatre when I was a kid!
It must have been great in that theater, and a little nerve-racking
Hi Bryan and Riki, thanks a lot for this beautiful video! With your videos you make me rediscover my island again! Thanks a load! Love you guys!
Our pleasure! We love doing it. Thanks
Great video,lovely art from Riki.Thx
Thank you
Worked in Port Louis and always enjoyed walking from the Champ de Mars and enjoyed watching the old buildings as well.
From the looks of it, this video appears to have been filmed on a Sunday given how everything is so silent.
Saturday afternoon, but the same thing. Too busy during the week days.
Thanks so much. Loved the walk around today.
Glad you enjoyed it
We love your videos and your laugh is infectious! You two look like you have fun showing us around. My Durban husband and I live in Anaheim California . His parents were born & raised in Curepipe. We are planning to visit for a couple of months in Feb 2022. If we love it, we will retire there. My husband has several cousins living on the island. I’ve lived in the US my whole life but am up for an adventure in retirement. We are attracted so far to the Tamarin area. I would like to know an American or too also. Thank you for showing us the quaint out of the way spots we need to visit. Keep laughing dudes!
Mauritius does have an American embassy, maybe they can tell you where the Americans living on the island are. Tamarin is a great place to retire, but explore the whole country before making a decision, there is a lot to see. Thanks for the great comment
I always love to sit at the St-Louis Cathedral place, on the stone bench for some fresh air.
In one comment of one of your videos, I remember you say you've been here for not too long. I mean by 2010, you weren't in Mauritius yet right? Before the big building Citadelle Mall was built, my neighbor the Bordie family, was living there and decided to sell the entire land. They lived in a beautiful old wooden house. Well, imagine it was very well preserved. I was sad to see it torn up little by little and see the construction of the Citadelle Mall. I took 2 or 3 pictures of the wooden house and wish I can send them to you, for you to have a sneak peak of it, how it was before the Citadelle Mall. You would have adored the old wooden family house of the Bordie family. I'm still in contact with the family and they still live nearby.
I had an grand uncle who owned a little wooden shop by the time he was alive. After he passed away in 2001, unfortunately his wife-my grand aunt sold it. You would have adored it. He sold many snacks like Twisties and other things. The inside, the floor was in stone. Normally it would have been wooden floor but for my grand uncle's shop, the wall was wooden, the floor was in stone and the usual ceiling you would normally see.
I too have an old scale. My grandpa used it during the time he was young. I myself have some old things and my friend always make fun of me, like I should turn my house into a museum. I have a family old rotary phone, a type machine still works, an old pendulum or grandpa clock (whatever you call it) that use a key that you need to insert, that you turn every time to make the clock work (unfortunately mine doesn't work anymore), among other things.
Thank you so much for the great comment, I have email [ bryanhags (at) gmail ] if you would like to send the pictures, I would love to see them. It sounds like you love to collect beautiful things, which is great, don't let your friends get you down. Thanks for the stories it is part of why we do this, not only to show but to learn. I have been in Mauritius since Jan 2017.
@@BryanDiscoversWorld Oh no, it's the opposite. My friend is pretty a nice guy and he jokingly said that to me just to annoy me. He himself is quite old-fashioned, he loves old things. Guess I have quite a collection. I also know an elderly man who walks around Port-Louis, he looks for antique things. For example old money at the time of Queen Elizabeth, he always asks for them cause there are people who pays a quite sum of money to buy those and collect.
Robbie & Marina from Sydney loving your work
Thanks guys
I have been to the cathedral st louis few time,the building could be palais episcopal where all the work done for the catholics,i never knew about port louis prison,many thanks to you both.you are showing my country
You are welcome, we love doing it
Very nice video guys. I used to live in Port Louis and I did not know half of the places you showed us.
We are also discovering how interesting people you two are.
We now know Brian's nickname...Brian the dog whisperer....!
Glad you are enjoying. Haha, great nickname
Hope you can get a drone soon. I am sure your videos will give us a whole new adventure.
I hope so too!
Close to the Henessy Tower ,the old wooden building ruins used to be the first hotel in Mauritius,correct me,if i'm not wrong!.anyway nice video as usual!.
Thanks for that, I'll look it up and see, wow.
Yeah at the end of the video, that big tree was a curry leaves tree. It can actually grow that big. And it’s actually really really old. I used to have one in my backyard, it was around 60years+ old until we cut it down
I had no idea they could get that big
The bakery is on Poudriere street (powder mill street), Rassool bakery. I have added it to Google maps, should be there soon.
Thanks
Fun fact : inside the cathedral there are name plate and one of them which is situated in the alter said there lies the remain of Mrs labourdonnais and her son, but also during the ceremony of ashes in 2019 i fortunately get to go upstairs the second floors of the cathedral because it was so crowded in the cathedral with other students and there were a little door next to the staircase which lead to god knows where at ?
At 5:06 is where the priests lives and also you can demand to have a prayer for your birthday or a praying for someone who have died for rs 50 to the secretary in the building
At 10:56 it use to be a restaurant my primary friend grand mother used to work there
Also talking about paul and virginie, you should visit the blue penny museum they have a huge statue of them in one of the room and also did you know that if you have actually entered the municipal hall and got inside you will have a mini version of the same statue of paul and virginie
At 11:18 before around 2018 you can actually walk on the road.
If you actually go behind the jeetoo hospital you got an old building which was a hospital in the 1800's Or 1700's i actually don't know and then being converted to a primary school which my mom attend but unfortunately it is now being rebuild but you can still see the school, it was fortunately not being destroyed and also face to face with it you have a chapel who were building by a nun in the 1800 something unfortunately there are new buildings replacing it but i think the dormatory where the nun slept are the only old building remaining but just beside the chapel is my primary school, Bon secours RCA and there are few old artifact like :
There actually a bell belonging to a shrinken ship whose being rung every morning to announced our morning assembly and a very old canon who were found in our school ground.
Thank you for such a great comment. I loved reading it. It is a pity the cathedral was closed, I would have loved to see inside, and better yet, get to the second floor.
I wasn't sure on the priests house, thanks for that information.
I think the restaurant would have been a great place to visit when it was in top form. I will have to go see the Blue Penny museum.
I will have to visit you old school and the nuns dormitory. I love bells and cannons
Thanks for all the fantastic information, it really does make my day to read.
@@BryanDiscoversWorld no it okay yeah it is a pity that the cathedral is closed unfortunately the second floor is not accessible to the public normally, i don't know how my teacher did make us go upstairs but if you do, there are tone of things there to do.
No problem
Yeah i don't know why the restaurant closed thought it is a pity.
Yeah you sure do it is a very great place to visit, had gone there when i was 10 years old unfortunately you have to pay the entry fee but it is worth it there the rarest post stamp, the blue and red one with the queen on it, some maps and a lot of things.
Unfortunately there is no nun anymore who are staying there now so if you do visit you should watch it near the gate but it was great place being there for my first communion when i was 8
Yeah you should do 😊
Do the legislators plan to repair all of the rundown buildings? Are there building codes? Just wondering because here those older buildings that aren't being cared for would be out of code and have to be repaired or torn down.
It's complicated, the law is the same, but the budget isn't there for repairing or tearing down.
I've been to that derelict place so many times to update my civil status
Never thought there used to be a prison right next to the supreme court and it's such a huge strategic abandoned compound
It was amazing to find, I did not expect it
The knight is the King of France , Louis IX aka Saint Louis .
Thanks for the info
how much is the drone that you are getting?
about $500 USD
Can’t wait
It is really good.
Are there wooden houses in Port Louis
Many wooden houses
They don’t even know who owns the building and they just disrespect the owners by barging in
Thanks for the comment
This is one of your best videos. Your recent ones about eating only is pretty boring to me.
That was a great day out