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Week-end à l'ile des pins
Départ matinal pour l'ile des pins,lors de la traversé qui dure environ 2h,nous avons vu 2 baleines et une dizaine de dauphins.L'île des Pins (Kunié en langue Kanak),aussi surnommée l'«île la plus proche du paradis » L'île mesure 14 kilomètres sur 18. Elle est peuplée de presque 2 000 habitants, essentiellement des Melanésiens répartis en huit tribus ...
Day 405: on the hill
... crest, lost the path, found it again, met some local teachers with a tiny dog, who pointed the onward way, lost the path in the forest, found one again, met some lost tourists at a castle, which does not at all match the surroundings and finally hit the street at the bakery without bread. Thursty. Very very thursty... I thought, I'd be ...
Day 404: lost and found
... I found a street. Some old, drunken friends of my landlord stop with their scooter and confirm that I'm going the right direction and finally I'm picked up by the owner of a neighbouring campsite. My friends return about an hour later. When they couldn't see me in the bushes anymore they had returned to the beach too. They were waiting for me on the other side. A big rock - the only available big rock - between us. We all have taken pictures of it. Another little adventure ending ...
Day 402: the leftover stories
... a chance to do so and most certainly the next chef will get that exact same list...
Finally it is afternoon, I just woke up from my siesta nap and take over the watch from Italy. We drink a cup of tea together (yup, that was the good times, when we got tea - several pots from the same bag and no sugar, but even though the water had never boiled, at least it was the pure, filtered water) and she left to start cooking. The display with the speed of the wind ...
Day 400: 400 versus 700
400 days on the road and still happy, healthy and alive! That calls for a celebration, of course! One of the houses I've seen, when we landed is a restaurant belonging to a fancy hotel. The seafood lunch buffet was well worth its 40$. I tried everything and especially everything out of the dessert fridge and I found out that I need to work on my fine-dining manners. ...