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The "city of peace" to be
... in silence. The boy and his friends headed off as he had a school exam in the afternoon, and I went to have lunch at a very expensive but excellent Kebab shop. It was packed with Westeners who were wearing business shirts, long trousers, shoes, and snobbish facial expressions - I was wondering how they could cope with the heat, but their offices were air conditioned anyway. I got to talk to some young Americans who joined me at the table and were working in Dili ...
Flores and East Timor 2005
... death to any creature bitten.
On my tour of Flores I saw and experienced so much. Ate unbelievably tasty fish for $1-50. Played drunken chess with the locals (palm wine was our tipple). Spent several nights at altitude (over 1000 metres) and got a cold. Everywhere I went I saw people carrying wood – on their backs, on their heads (no electricity, so wood needed for cooking). Saw lots of graves in gardens (common to bury your loved ones next to the ...
On the road again
... to be too much of a chore – especially considering the next stop is Bali, and we have been thinking of things that we'll miss and it is mostly not a positive list – but that is mainly because the best bits of East Timor should also be found in the Indonesian archipelago. Maybe we will have a different opinion after we have spent some time in the nearby islands and have discovered the differences between Timor and Indonesia itself.
There are some ...
Crocodile Dundili
... t even have the good sense to look apologetic about the whole thing! She wasn't best pleased that evening.
The weekend was our last full weekend in Dili, and happily enough we managed to complete all the niggling little jobs that we have been intending to do since arriving. The most important was actually getting the plane tickets out of here, but after that there was a little bit of shopping for local curios, and then a trip to what ...
Stop Press!
... helping with at the clinic, and since our target customers are the foreign community, Alarico and I have been spamming the English language press here, and those that are easily flyable from Dili - just to make sure nobody misses the launch by dint of being away for two weeks.
Must dash now - I need to update my CV and email Rupert ...


