IN-DEPTH Food
Hearing that you've been bumped up to business class, is quite possibly the best way to start any trip, and Air Austral knows it. With champagne in hand, followed by a three-course meal, my four-hour flight barely feels like a haul across the sky. My task now? To eat my way through the island of La Réunion.
I meet my tour guide, Sully Chaffre from Ethnix Tours Voyages, at Réunion’s Roland Garros Airport. I don’t speak a lick of French - luckily, he knows a little of every language. On the southwest of the island, my villa for the first leg of the trip awaits, Villa Myriam in Saint-Pierre, an hour’s drive from the airport.
Creole architecture jumps out at you. Like most of its neighbouring houses, Villa Myriam has a quaint, beachside quality with its wooden structures with intricate latticework, ornate balconies and vibrant pastel exteriors that paint
