On a swing around the Pacific we stopped at the Club Med in New Caledonia. We were a bit disappointed with a room that had no lock on the door and a front desk that was not manned for hours at a time. [Read More]
Nauru is one of the richest nations in the world, ranking up there with Kuwait and Brunei in per capita income. The latter two are postage-stamp size nations sitting on pools of oil. Nauru’s wealth is bird droppings. For untold centuries great flocks of migratory birds stopped and dumped on Nauru, which is a dot on the map in the central Pacific. Ultimately, the Nauruans discovered they had a large reservoir of the highest-concentrate phosphate fertilizer in the world. In recent times, they have been selling off their island a boatload at a time and getting rich in the process. The newly rich Nauruans wanted to go ... [Read More]
