I believe I can say that I am familiar with New Caledonia, perhaps a bit more than some of the commentators at the time. I lived there for three years, following my father who spent two stints there between 2008 and 2014. I first lived in Nouméa, then in Bourail, in the center of the "Rock", and later in Koumac, in the north. I have the memory of a beautiful land, rightly called "the closest island to paradise". I remember above all a Kanak popu…
I believe I can say that I am familiar with New Caledonia, perhaps a bit more than some of the commentators at the time. I lived there for three years, following my father who spent two stints there between 2008 and 2014. I first lived in Nouméa, then in Bourail, in the center of the "Rock", and later in Koumac, in the north. I have the memory of a beautiful land, rightly called "the closest island to paradise". I remember above all a Kanak popu…