(aka The Glasgow Boys), as well as Turner Prize nominees. The gallery runs a free drop-in art workshop for children aged three to 12 on Saturdays from 10.30am to 1pm. These are held in the old rooftop café where there is also a working studio

at Chamarel, ending the day at La Vanille Reserve, home to 2,000 Nile crocodiles and over 1,000 giant tortoise, the largest numbers in captivity. For a few Mauritian rupee, we bought veggie treats to tempt these prehistoric creatures with and, once we got them