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NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

All these may be obtained in the "papeterie" opposite the Post Office. During the season all foreign illustrated papers and dailies (of importance) are obtainable. There ara also post cards, books and travel souvenirs.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

YUCCA

A plant with big leaves and large white flowery blossoms. Very useful for decoration purposes.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

DRINKING

You should confine yourself to mineral water (obtained from the mainland) for drinking purposes.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

WATER SUPPLIES

The only pump in Heliopolis is on the main road. The public washing place is there too. the happy splashing of housewives washing dirty "undies" ceases in August as the supplies in the cisterns have then usually come to an abrupt end. The "elixir of life" can only be gathered during winter rains and should never be wasted. Despite this shortage the reservoirs in some cisterns are sufficient to allow visitors to showers.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

TRANSISTOR APPARATUS

Radios, record players,recorders and other "noise making" apparatus of the technological age may be used but must be toned down. The tone should not permit the hearing of such instruments outside the bungalow walls. People of the teddy-boy type who feel they have to carry such things around with them (like Mary's little lamb) everywhere they go (with Radio Caroline blaring) have got another thing coming. They are in for a rather hard kick in the bottom and their transistor in the ocean waves. People want peace and quiet on the ile.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

POCKET LAMP

Every one should bring his own pocket lamp with him. You can find your way back to your quarters with a pocket lamp but if you haven't got one it's too "pitch black" during the advanced hours.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

SEA URCHIN

Oursins, a very popular delicacy which costs more in Paris than oysters but is not so tasty by a long chalk in the Paris restaurants as on the Ile. Cut uo, cleaned and prepared, ou may then eat the star-shaped spawn eggs. Add some lemon juice and white bread - delikatessen par excellence ! Woe to him. However, who treads barefoot on a sea urchin. Even the islanders need a long time to pluck out the spines (as hard as glass) with a sewing needle.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

Réglementation de la pêche des oursins
• dans les départements du var, des Bouches du Rhône et des Alpes Maritimes, la pêche des oursins est autorisée du 1^er novembre au 15 avril
• en pêche sous-marine ou en pêche à pied : 4 douzaines d’oursins par pêcheur et par jour
• En pêche au moyen d’un navire de plaisance : 4 douzaines d’oursins par pêcheur et par jour avec un maximum de 10 douzaines d’oursins par navire et par jour, au-delà de deux personnes embarquées.
• Arrêté du 27 octobre 2008 (format pdf - 287.9 ko - 17/02/2011)

SUNBURN

Do not try and "brown" at any cost. Those parts of the body normally concealed are the first to protest and redden when exposed (not from shame but from annoyance).

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967

SAPPIA

"luggage taximan" with abeard, a bell and a minimum.

Ile du Levant in the nude n°111 Special Edition Sun & Health (Holidays) Limited 1967