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Chirac came out here on Concorde years ago. Another suggestion today was zodiacs from the beach to a cruise ship.

No idea, staying at Le Lagon around the corner.

Monday. It's a public holiday here so the bakery was shut. Dead quiet around Anse Vata but still other areas are troublesome. The McDonalds at Boulari was torched, haven't seen too much new news to learn anything. The forces are still working on the airport road. A nice person came to our hotel...

Armed forces have commandeered the Air Caledonie ATRs and using them as a shuttle between La Tontouta and Magenta airfields.

Road clearance in progress...

Sunday PM This is the way, our thoughts are the same. Sit tight, the army will do what they do best and we should be off on Wednesday or so. There was an unpublicised meeting at the Hilton today with the consulate staff, that is if you weren't in the Hilton you didn't know. Apparently DFAT...

You're right about the whinging. Went out for lunch and the next table was doing the math on how many QF A380s would be needed by the Government to get us all home. The concept of the road hadn't sunk into their heads.

Sunday. Last night DFAT called for a welfare check, thank you. This morning their email suggests the RAAF is ready to fly us home if commercial flights are cancelled. Also this morning the minister of the interior for outer ocean announced an operation was taking place from ~0800h with 600...

Our hotel... For being here so long and not being a flapwit, I've become good mates with the guys at reception and found out a few things. There's no real food here. Every morning the hotel receives some baguettes from down the road, and put those out with jam and whatnot, a few cartons of...

Saturday. TikTok has been blocked in NC as the trouble-makers may have been using it. No loss there. Yesterday the predicted airport opening was pushed to the 22nd, so QF rebooked for that day. After rebooking, noted that our NOU-SYD was upgraded to an A330. Just had a look at the seat map and...

SB has two each of A320neo and A330neo. And a lot of destinations. So they're going to be busy for a while once the airport opens. Rumour has it that there's about 2500 Australians here at the moment. Interesting times ahead.

We're insanely lucky to be in a hotel in Anse Vata which has a bakery and a couple of convenience-type shops about 100m away. This area had some light troubles, but nothing like the more suburban areas. The bakery has been opening at 0930h, but I get in the queue around 0745h. Food is being...

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Friday. More of the same. Was sad to see supermarkets we visited last week being looted, etc. (e.g. the big Carrefor out at Kenu-in). And a gerdarme was shot and killed via friendly fire. Poor cough. Two A330s of armed forces arrived earlier today, e.g...

Thanks. Writing this from the hot tub :) QF are fine to rebook us as required. We don't need to be anywhere until the 27th, so happy here for the moment. The QF office I suspect is closed and wouldn't offer any benefit over using the phone. The high commission facebook page is starting to get...

Yup. Now booked for Sunday direct to BNE.

Yeah, 0500h. L'atelier gourmand. QF have optimistically booked us for tomorrow NOU-SYD-ADL-BNE. Sounds like a lounge crawl if we can depart.

Yes. The French high commissioner said something like "if you shoot at armed forces, they're going to end up shooting back at you". Locals yesterday formed their own street militias, blocked off the entrances etc. The bobcat was used to move the concrete blocks around. So, Thursday. State of...

Slept in until 930 then went for a drive as the bakery was shut. Mad traffic anywhere near a food outlet. All the major food chains are closed, so it took both of us about four hours each to get food for a few days. Lots of civil unrest last night, many more arrested. Many fires were lit on...