New Caledonia

Country number:
2
Territory number:
169
“No sooner did the plane let them off at New Caledonia, than Barby found another friend. He was a Kanaka taxi driver, over six feet tall and muscled like a blacksmith, with sooty skin and hair turned yellow from many applications of lime, a standard native treatment for lice. He chewed betel incessantly, which Barby thought was fascinating, since it turned his tongue and lips the color of a ripe tomato. His name, he said in wonderfully bad English, was Henri. He pronounced it 'On-ree.”
John Blaine, The Phantom Shark

Tales from New Caledonia

New Caledonia - French and Friendly at the Same Time - South Pacific 4

The first thing I see approaching the capital of New Caledonia, Noumea, in the darkness, is the golden arches of MacDonald’s. There are...
The first thing I see approaching the capital of New Caledonia, Noumea, in the darkness, is the golden arches of MacDonald’s. There are two lane highways, traffic jams and every sign of western civilisation.
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