Hospital in Indonesia
It’s been forever since I’ve posted anything. It seems trite, but it annoys me way more than it probably annoys anyone else (….yawn, Miles who?). […]
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And So to Indonesia
Balibo was close to the border, and I was there by 10am. I was a little nervous as this was the first land border I’d
Balibo
For Australians, Balibo will always be synonymous with the Balibo 5 – five 20-something journalists murdered there in 1975. The house they where lived is
My Hotel, and a Little Adventure
The hotel was nice. Probably it was at the high end of Dili, price wise at US$85/night. But it was popular with westerners so I
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Quirks of Dili
They have a Jesus statue on a hill – some 27m high. Think of the big thing in Rio. It’s right at the eastern end
Impressions of Timor Leste
You’ve been to Asia, right? You understand the helter-skelter of motorbikes by the thousand weaving in and out of cars as they race towards some
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Timor Leste – a Brief History
To understand this country, and to appreciate how special the people who live here really are, I think maybe I might provide a small snapshot
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Dili – Retrieving the Truck
My most ardent followers (I count 2) would know that I signed off in Darwin. It wasn’t easy getting my truck on a ship to
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