16 July 2012 July 06th-12th This hotel should learn guests stay in to sleep, not because it’s great. They should therefore learn to switch off the lights in the patio, and put light-blocking blinds on the windows. It was so bright and noisy, we hardly slept.Last night we had only cold water, this morning,, Read More
16 July 2012 While Claire was finishing the last details for her flights back to Noumea, I went to Toll to fill up the forms about the insurance claim. It’s quite straightforward in terms of process, as James explained, but it will be denied at first, and I must appeal afterwards. There is however,, Read More
29 June 2012 June 26th – 29th So we got a text message from James on the Friday while we were on Atauro Island: Brice, your carnet has arrived! YAY!!!
29 June 2012 The island of Atauro lies some 30km north of Dili, on a good day you can actually see it from the city. There are a few ways to get there, some cost five dollars (the ferry, only on Saturday and tickets are sold out in half an hour) some cost 45, Read More
29 June 2012 Tonight we’ll be spending our last night in TL, we should cross the Indonesian border tomorrow lunchtime. It’s sad we have to leave on such short notice but Claire has some commitments in New Caledonia she can’t miss, namely, her mum 🙂 So she’ll fly off from Kupang on the 9th,, Read More
26 June 2012 June 15th-19th So we arrived at the backpackers around 9AM. There’s limited choice when it comes to lodging in Dili. There’s a couple of hotels, ranging from 100AUD to 500AUD per night, or the backpackers, the only one in fact, for 25 dollars a night (this includes air-conditioning and a fan,, Read More
17 June 2012 Well, we’re done with Australia, hopefully. Both Troopy and Tanami are in Darwin, while we’re in Dili, in Timor Leste. Tomorrow, my friend Thor will drop the car at Toll’s, get the Carnet signed, and mail it to us in Dili with DHL. The reason behind all this ? Well, administrations, Read More
16 June 2012 Last February, I called the RACV (Royal Automobile Club of Victoria) in Melbourne to organize the Carnet de Passage. The person I spoke with told me he couldn’t do anything from Melbourne, and I had in fact to contact the AAA (Automobile Association of Australia). Since I had to go to, Read More
15 June 2012 June 15th. I promised myself I’d write one last post, reflecting the past five months in Australia, but there’s so much to take in here that I’ll delay that last post. We flew in from Darwin this morning at 6:30AM and our small jet landed about 90min later in Dili International, Read More
15 June 2012 June 01st, 2nd, 3rd. So as I said in the previous entry, Claire had one tiny taste of an oyster last night. I really thought her iodine allergy would be okay… Pretty much as soon as her head hit the pillow, she got up and left her dinner on the grass, Read More