Richard Feidler

And without the Portuguese army, we would not have been able to walk across it.

And they really looked after us.

There were Chinese restaurants, believe it or not, in the middle of nowhere, and they let us sleep on their floors.

I have no idea.

I just remember the interesting cultural dress and everybody ate betel nut.

So they had like red lips and not many teeth.

And they just took it in their stride.

I mean, I couldn't speak Portuguese, certainly couldn't speak the dialect.

It was more hand signals.

The Portuguese spoke some English, so that was really good.

But whatever they thought of us, they treated us with the utmost kindness.

And that's literally how we got over to the other side of the island.

I just remember...

There was this ravine and I was really scared.

It was wild.

And the truck couldn't get across.

So we had to walk across this raging, well, it was almost like a river, very, very deep, but with a massive strong current.

I was crying.

I was on the side.

I'm not going on that.