Okay, on to St Denis.

Anyone here been to Nassau? St Denis struck me as being much like Nassau, although somewhat more happening (Nassau got beat up pretty badly by a lot of tourism moving over to Atlantis and "Paradise Island"). But the overwhelming theme is "Colonial administrative" town, with a lot of older Colonial architecture, tight roads, and the like. But it's still a pretty nice little town:

Here's the waterfront, which is mostly a nice park with a combination of palm and tamarind trees:





The colonial architecture can best be summed up with the Hotel de Ville, the old City Hall:



As a byproduct of the fact that a lot of places are seasonal occupancy, and that in the rainy season Reunion often gets hit by very severe cyclones, a prominent feature in Reunionnaise architectures is the use of very heavy duty storm shutters (with a funky latching mechanism that I forgot to photograph in detail):



The city is centered about the War Memorial, (WWI), which makes a decent landmark: