Richard Feidler

But when you're young, I think you just take it in.

That's how it is.

Then we got to Darwin and they said, oh, look, we want to walk over Timor.

I knew nothing about Timor.

I don't think too many people did know anything about Timor then.

And I thought, oh, that sounds like a good idea.

So we got on a plane to Dili and we stayed at a hostel in Dili, but the revolution in Portugal had happened.

Yes, right.

Before.

So when the revolution, they were celebrating and they were absolutely fantastic.

I thought the revolution had been won.

I was very naive.

But they just brought out a lot of red wine and we got really wasted.

They took me to a cock fight, which was abhorrent.

And so then we started and it took about eight days to walk.

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.