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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]