On the weekend, I whipped out to the Doulos to check out the floating bookshop – the huge ship docked at Dili Wharf and attracting hordes of schoolchildren.\u00a0 To be honest, the whole thing was over in 30 minutes.\u00a0 About 1\/3 of the books were religious tomes or advice on how to rear children and husbands.\u00a0 The second 1\/3 was children’s books and the rest, a mixture of classics, nature books and cookbooks.\u00a0 What I did notice was that sales were next to nothing.\u00a0 That is, most of the books were in English and very few students would have even the most simple knowledge and possibly no money anyway.\u00a0 (And there is no public bar on-board.)<\/p>\n
One could not have noticed the 2 or 3 commercial freight vessels hanging around offshore for the week.\u00a0 This is unusual but explained by the Doulos occupying prime dock space.<\/p>\n
I paid for scoffing at this costly arrangement by going to the bank today and spending 36 minutes in the queue to attend to my 3 minute over the counter transaction.<\/p>\n
I hope I do not pay again courtesy of yet another “Indian” restaurant opened up.\u00a0 The “Flavors of India” has opened about 100 metres on the sea-side of Vasco da Gamas restaurant.\u00a0 The proprietor is Nepalese and tells me he is still in the setup phase but expects to be fully kitted up in about 2 weeks.\u00a0 He assures me he does not use oil and that this is healthy Indian food.\u00a0 In the interests of random-ness, give it a try.\u00a0 It is open, quiet and airy and suggests lunchtime is a good time to start.\u00a0 (Tiger beer is $2 and cold.)<\/p>\n
The fruit and veg markets on Comorro road have now finally completely moved – mostly to the old Comorro market area which extends from Comorro Road towards the sea for about 200 metres.\u00a0 Pumpkins finished, papaya hard to find (except out near Liquica), plenty of bananas, mangos, potatos, limes, tomatoes and greens.\u00a0 Beans OK, as are snow peas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the weekend, I whipped out to the Doulos to check out the floating bookshop – the huge ship docked at Dili Wharf and attracting hordes of schoolchildren.\u00a0 To be honest, the whole thing was over in 30 minutes.\u00a0 About … Continue reading