Maré, Loyalty island:
Yann is an old friend of my engineering school that got off the career thing. He came here to live and learn things about how to become self-sufficient and environmental friendly. He is one of the three people that gave me the willing to come to New Caledonia. We see each other once [...]

Freegan : whoever eat for free. Term derivated from the word ‘vegan’, one who eat veggies. Commonly used by New Yorker people who get huge quantities of food out of the dumpsters of supermarket or others.
See www.freegan.com.

Teacher’s holiday is a great part of time during the year.
I have now two weeks and I made my mind up to take my bike all around the northern main part of Caledonia mainland.
1000 kms that I accomplished in 13 days, meeting the real Caledonian side, the true “Kanak” and “Caldoche” spirit. This is certainly [...]

The Caledonian outdoor vision is mainly made of Trails and races, very popular here.
First shy with the concept of organised mountain trails; I soon become part of it.

Hey happy Reader,
We are now on a year quite sedentary with Nadege. However, things move, and last time you have heard of the Fly’n’roll adventure, I was talking about wind farms and an engineer job of mine: technical responsible of the maintainability teams for most of the New Caledonian territory. Very interesting position I’d say.
Well, [...]

Long time I have not given news, sorry about that. Here comes some refreshing news.
Mobarak has gone from the power in Egypt; Tunisie had freed itself, and a wind of freedom blows through African countries. I, in the contrary, went back to the chains of our society, I found myself a job and an apartment! [...]

When we meet Alexis for the first time, he wears pink clothes and a helmet with “NO FUTURE” on it. He claims at that time that pink is perfectly suitable for an urban cloth nowadays. This having been said, no questions should be asked anymore about the subject!

It is the first time in three years that I stay so long in a country. Three months already.
We think now about maybe staying here for a whole year to work. This would be the perfect place for it.
The middle point in our trip, a French territory so that working is not a visa problem, [...]

Nadege writes:
In Caledonia comes a tradition coming from Pacific islanders : The Kava.
I link it to our cultural coffee in France. It is also true we say “kawa” in familiar French for “Coffee”.

Three months since we arrived push us to take on our bikes with the firm idea to go around this new country of ours. We start with cyclotouring the southern part of Caledonia, starting from Nouméa. Three days giving the opportunity to meet the tribe of Goro as well as the super-big-prototyp factory of the [...]