December 29, 2012
We sat at KuDeTa knocking back fanciful cocktails and watching the sun crawl down the sky, slowly slipping, grabbing at the clouds. A...
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December 19, 2012
I have been posting some blogs recently (you may have noticed) on my experiences in Timor-Leste in the first half of 2012. I didn’t...
A mosquito buzzed around the solitary lightbulb that was illuminating the pastel pink room. My phone still kept the time even though it...
December 9, 2012
We threw aerosol cans into the bonfire. Everyone would then run back and wait. The fire hissed and popped as our feet wiggled nervously in...
The house party was down a narrow street out the back of Santa Cruz somewhere, in some alley running past the cemetery. In the front room...
August 1, 2012
For a post-conflict, least developed country, Dili has some pretty solid dining options available… unfortunately, they aren’t...
Christo Rei, a statue of Jesus standing on top of a globe on a hill at the eastern edge of Dili, is definitely the main landmark of...
View back towards Dili (and Atauro Island) from Dare....
So, I’m not in Timor-Leste anymore. I’m also not in Indonesia, which was what ‘the plan’ was. No, I didn’t...
We were lucky enough to hang out with and host some pretty cool election observers over the parliamentary election period in Timor in July....
July 28, 2012
Just 10 minutes from the town centre in Dili, on the way to the Jesus statue at Christo Rei, Areia Branca Beach is definitely one of the...
July 27, 2012
Dili sunsets, more often than not, put on a good show. This is the sunset on one afternoon, taken at four different times in two different...
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