Timorese legend has it that if you drink the milk of a coconut in Timor you will come back. I didn’t drink any coconut milk, but I will be back.

Bruce, Simon and I went back to Ostico School today. The children weren’t in school (I think an unofficial holiday had been declared to clean up after the previous days’

I had no real idea what to expect of the school opening. But it was an incredible day. Stephen and I travelled to Ostico with Kirsty – it was wonderful

Simon took me up to Dare today – a little hamlet in the mountains behind Dili. It’s not far in distance, but took us about half an hour by car,