Farol Hotel Dili

... attraversati per arrivare fino a qui. Per poi realizzare che gli ultimi 500 miseri chilometri li devo fare in aereo. E' stata dura arrendermi, ma non ho veramente alternative. Ci vuole coraggio per inseguire un sogno, ma certe volte ci vuole ancora piu' coraggio per ammettere a se stessi che quel sogno e' finito. Ma la vita continua, la strada pure, e lungo quella strada c'e' il prossimo sogno da inseguire. Qualcosa dentro di me mi diceva gia' da un po' che non ci sarei ...

... from around the world to relax. Of course, this cannot happen unless the country stabilizes. My assessment of the current political situation is that the new government is serious about improving their country's economic and political environment. The people are certainly hoping for that to happen. Hopefully when I come back - and I will - there will be less people in the streets and tents, and certainly no more international police filling up the hotels and cafe's.

... Even worse I am chained to Cookie for the duration having to listen about his fav comic books and his one big regret is that he will never every get to see the new transformers film. Then the customs blokes start checking through our bags and i remeber that both me and Mike had packed our sumartran coffee in the bottem of our rucksacks. Only coffee i promise but the bloody was wrapped up in plastic and looked like a flippin bag of you know what. I can ...

... long i wanted to stay?. I said well were on holiday and suppose we will be here 10 or 11 days. Ten or Eleven he says which is it? eleven i mutter (The Fact that i should of got 30 for paying my green backs did not seem to matter to Travolta) Back in the Caravan he goes talking to his commrade, i am sweating now thinking of a schene where some bloke has to do seriously hard time in a shithole of a prison breaking rocks and doing ungodly acts just to ...

... Krise ausbricht. Ich w**de mit North Air b**eits am 6.8. nach Darwin fliegen. Alles zusammen fu** knapp 500 USD. XXXXX The journey to the bord** and the crossing itself was (obviously) as safe as easy. Even if we had to go to the Military Offic** (probably for strategic reasons) before leaving Indonesia th**e was no problems. The highlight was definitely the v**y nice entry to East Timor wh**e Fred and me had to instruct the ...

... kazdy kycha a kasle. Vsude pobihaji nosici, pytle na zadech, voziky z 10pytli talci 5chlapu, cela ulice je zacpana. Dasli den jsem jela na nakupy do moderni a tudiz drahe ctvrti. neco jako styl naseho nakupniho centra s oblecenim kosmetikou, botami atd. Tak jsem se tez vyradila. Indove tu mezi sebou zasadne mluvili anglicky, byli draze obleceni a ridili draha auta. mezi nimi melo nejvetsi zastoupeni Oktavka ...

... chicken satay with coconut rice. No seafood, even though the place is only a few km from the sea. Five minutes later he returned to tell us there was no coconut for the rice. That's like no corn in Kansas. When we came out of the restaurant an hour later the goat was where we had left it covered with flies and starting to bloat. We were really glad to leave Baucau. Our drive south to Venilale, the heart of the island, was very ...

... the Indonesian Army and their East Timorese militia. It turns out that our choice of hotels was fortuitous for getting a feel for the independence struggle as it was one of the places that the Fretilin supporters would secretly meet with internationals to pass on information to the outside world. The Indonesians knew this and the head of the secret police had a room above us over looking the court yard where he could see who was talking to who. We've been walking all ...

... barrier between tourists and locals. Tired? Come to Timor Leste. The only way I can describe this story is through a little anecdote... Our visa had been filled out incorrectly by immigration. They have only been issusing their own visas for a couple of months, so its understandable. The heading of the form is "application for a 30 day visa", like all visa fors there is a little bit about 'intended duration of stay', which ...

... have no concept of thinking for yourself or of the world around. They ask me really strange questions like, "did you drive here from America?" "are you going back to America this weekend?" "do you have stars in America?" "Is there a moon in America?" and if you ask them a question that is not yes or no or you ask them to tell you something about their day they just look at you like you are crazy. In school they just repeat the same ...