We arrived at our pre-booked hotel of La Marina. The best part was the free wireless internet. We couldn't believe it when we found out.....it was actually free, Madagascar of all places. Needless to say we wasted no time in logging on and catching up with emails and stuff.
The hotel was very nice indeed. With an excellent restaurant and large sunny court yard garden where you could take your morning breakfast while surfing on the laptop!

The American International School of Antananarivo (can you say that fast 3 times) I can't, was just next door to the hotel. We had alot of visiters that came by the hotel the first 2 days to see if we had changed our minds about staying. After me asking where do we get 0ur furniture at so we can start the shoping process we were told everything had been burnt down a few days before our arrival. But there were some shops they were more expensive but atleast we had some options, but the only problem we wern't allowed to drive to them with all the road blocks the embassy had said better to stay at home until things calm down...