14/10/09 - 19.03.15S 169.56.4W - Niue
Flying Cloud
Julian Nichols
Mon 19 Oct 2009 19:26
The island is an independent country - with its foreign affairs administered by New Zealand. Inhabitants, of which there are 1300, have dual citizenship. The island is heavily subsidised by NZ, but is very beautiful and unspoilt (there are 50 hotel rooms on the entire island and 1/3rd of visitors arrive by yacht.
We spent the afternoon de-salting the yacht, after clearing customs and immigration (and after spending a couple of hours in the bank trying to get out some cash!).