Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggghhh!!

September 27 2007


Kathmandu is a nightmare!!! Never mind all that tosh about it having a certain something.. it's a shithole!
Ah well I am over reacting but after staying in that beautiful town near Pokhara and having such wonderful views and clean air to breathe returning to Kathmandu has been very hard. The contrast between the two places could not be more severe. Don't get me wrong it is nice to be back and to see the kids and all of our friends some of whom now feel like family. It's a bit like that nice feeling you get when you know you are going home, but then you remember that you live in Hell.

Don't worry a couple of days and we will be used to it all and we won't mind but it has been quite hard to readjust. We travelled back on Tuesday on the (luxury) tourist bus which was a much more pleasant trip than the last one. The trip was supposed to take 8 hours in total so I was nicely suprised to arrive at the edge of the Kathmandu valley (maybe 5kms from our destination) after a mere 5 hours on the coach... I soon realised that the extra 3 hours was alloted to get us through the 5kms of Kathmandu traffic to Thamel. The fumes nearly killed me and Jon hasn't stopped wheezing since we arrived.

Ok ok enough whingeing - it's not all bad we got to see all of our friends as we said and have been busy plotting our escape in the form of a nice expedition as previously mentioned. We also have the climbing wall here which we did miss in Pokhara. Also we had to come back here to sort out our flights home - the embassy will not renew our visas past 7th December so we either need to come home 10 days or so early or go somewhere else. At the moment they only have business class seats going back to London on the dates that we require so I am heavily in favour of that option!!

Ok well I am heading back out into the dirt and grime pleas think of me while you sip your mocha-chocca-lattes at your nice clean desks!!

Caroline x