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Black, gold

I have a new cellphone. It is one of those newfangled cellphones that has an extra piece of string or a special carrier pigeon that connects it to the interwebs (I do not understand modern technology). Vodafone now has some decent pricing plans for cellphone interwebs, so I have no excuse not to use it. [...]

Coco loco

I have returned from New Caledonia. It was choice.

My top three things:

Revisting the Tjibaou Centre.
The coconut yoghurt I found at the supermarche.
Discovering the ruins of the old Club Med.

I’ll write more later, but until then, please entertain yourself with a selection of photos:

(Or if you’re feeling a bit masochistic, you could look at all [...]

Pack your bags

I have been preparing for my impending tropical island fun-in-the-sun holiday in New Caledonia in a number of ways.

I purchased Fodor’s Guide to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific (1979) at the Book Fair for $2. It has a little section on New Caledonia, which notes “the air is full of tangos and stirring [...]