I’m currently in Timor Leste (East Timor) doing some training and support for Solar PV installations in remote communities. It’s been eight months since I was last here and the changes in preparation for the recent 10 year independence celebrations have been quite pronounced. Particularly along the foreshore.
This is a very impressive public space and if you look very closely in the picture on the right you can see the free electricity access point for people with laptops and music equipment.
But the place for me today was one of the markets for some fresh fruit and veggies for lunch.
A wide selection of fruits and vegetables on display for sale. I have no idea what those purple things are!
Oooh! those chillies look Hot! But not for me today.
I need to be focussed for my meetings this afternoon at the training centre.
And for those from out of town one of the many buses waiting next to the market being given a good cleaning by the driver.
That’ll do for now, on this rather slow connection, but I’ll have some more updates over the next few weeks.
Those purple things that you refer to are from a banana tree. They are the flower buds that would eventually develop into fruit. I’ve seen photos taken by a couple of my eastern suburbs permie friends who have had these growing on their banana trees. Was a good season for cool climate Melbourne bananas earlier this year 🙂
Thanks Fran,
You’re a legend, I wonder how they use them? I’ll have to do a bit more research.
We had a banana tree for a few years but it died when we were on holidays a while ago. We never got any bananas from it but the parent plant at a mate’s, mum’s house produced very nice small fruit, in Mount Waverley!
Cheers