Day 98

06/10/2009

Not quite sure where I got up to on the blog site as we were having to post things direct on the Internet from Dili, some of which were done in draft and I don't have copies of what was actually posted.

So, the last few days in brief.

Sunday - made the decision to ship the van straight home from Dili to avoid the quarantine hassle, cost and delay in Darwin.

Monday - unloaded the van from the Australia bound container and awaited a UK bound container.

Tuesday - loaded into UK bound container, paid the extra shipping costs and had our Carnet stamped to show the vehicle was leaving Timor Leste. Booked flights and hotel in Darwin.

Simon and Pat arrived in Dili yesterday evening and Simon was at the shipping agent first thing this morning to arrange shipping to Darwin. He soon reaised that the next ship sailing on Wednesday gave them just 27 hours to do the necessary cleaning. A very tall order.

We had suggested a farewell meal for this evening but they had little time to stop to eat.

Town Dili