Among all the palaver of the past couple of weeks, every now and then I wonder what I’m really doing or what direction I’d like my life to take; when I arrived in Dili I had only vague aspirations with no idea whether they were too “out there”, even for me. One afternoon last week, a girl from one of …

My first few days in Dili have passed by with lightning speed. My time has mostly been spent cycling around and getting a feel for the place. The heat is sweltering, perhaps even more so than in Phuket. The rainy season is due in a couple of months and I’m looking forward to seeing if the storms can match those …

I touched down in Dili, East Timor, on Sunday morning and right from the offset I knew that I’d let myself in for a life very different to how it had been in Thailand over the past three years. I’ve been lucky to have a friend working for an NGO in Dili who has been introducing me to people here …