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Oh yeah, that time I went to New Caledonia in September last year

Last year in September, I managed to find some nice cheap flights and accommodation in New Caledonia, so I went there for a short holiday. This is how it went down.

Tuesday, 9 September

After spending the night in Auckland, I flew on to New Caledonia. It’s a nice short flight – only two and a half [...]

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 [...]

New Caledonia

I went on holiday to New Caledonia and I took a notebook with me so I could note down all sorts of amusing anecdotes, but here I am looking at the notebook with “the sexual politics of airline flight” scrawled on it and wondering exactly what it was that I was thinking of when I [...]