Friday 17th November The last day of my holiday has come. Time flies by so quickly but I do feel that I have had a proper break. Not once has work entered my mind since I have been here. I got up at the late hour of 7.30 a.m. Breakfast was porridge and croissants at [...]
Thursday 16th November During the night I only went to the toilet once. The alarm went off at 5.45 a.m. After settling the bill, I waited outside at the front of the hotel for the bus to pick me up. Several shops had started to open up and a couple of croissants and cinnamon rolls [...]
Wednesday 15th November There are just two more days until I go home. I finally succumb to Kathmandu Quickstep! At 4 a.m. I woke up with a cough and stomach cramps. Within minutes I was on the toilet. It was 5.45 a.m. when I got up for the sunrise. After a quick wash I made [...]
Tuesday 14th November At 5 a.m. I woke up but turned over and went back to sleep. Three hours later I got up. After a nice long hot shower I felt much better. Perhaps it was the pizza I had back in Kathmandu after all. It was off to the Boomerang Restaurant to eat breakfast [...]
Monday 13th November At 5.45 a.m. I got washed and dressed. All that was needed for my excursion to Pokhara was packed in my Lowe daypack. At reception I put my rucksack in storage and paid for my room. It was cool and overcast as I made my way to Kantipath to catch the bus. [...]
Sunday 12th November This morning I was up at 6 a.m. and had breakfast at Le Bistro. It was 8.15 a.m. when I boarded a minibus at Rani Pokhri for Bhaktapur. Bhaktapur is the third major town of the valley after Patan and Kathmandu, and in many ways is the most medieval. There is a [...]
Saturday 11th November During the night a call of nature made me get up. It had finally stopped raining. The stars were visible in what was now a cloudless night sky. Someone up there must have been listening! Hopefully it will last so that we can fly back to Kathmandu in the morning. There was [...]
Friday 10th November If anything, the weather was even worse than yesterday. The downpour was relentless. It hardly inspired confidence for the day ahead. My plan had been to walk down to Lukla with Paul and fly back to Kathmandu tomorrow. The weather looked like it had other ideas, so I decided to see if [...]
Thursday 9th November It was good to have a lie in until the late hour of 7:30 a.m. PD Sherpa wished us a good trip on our departure. Today is the second day of the Mani Rimdu festival and some dancing is taking place. On the approach to Tengboche we saw a musk deer. It [...]
Wednesday 8th November Last night I slept well although I was awake at the crack of dawn. The lodge did not start serving breakfast until 6 a.m. I had some delicious porridge and Tibetan bread with jam. Departure for Deboche was at 8 a.m. The path passed through several yersas (yak herding areas) before crossing [...]
