Noumea

VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Sat 21 Sep 2013 07:06
Arrived Noumea; Bank Holiday as usual. But this time with a difference - Customs & Immigration are closed for four days until Wednesday morning!! So we have to ignore the entire ridiculous border bureaucracy and do our own thing on shore.
Noumea is like a downmarket version of the south of France with the usual French colonial buildings of 1970s the concrete brutalist style, utterly without charm. But the contrast with Vanuatu is about as extreme as it gets.