Sunday - it is nice to arrive when it's weekend and be able to relax and get used to the thin air and the different time zone before starting to work.

I woke up several times during the night and felt wide awake - for example at 2.15 am ;-) Luckily I succeeded in going back to sleep and didn't get up till 6.30.

Steffen and I had breakfast together at the restaurant here at the hotel - coffee and cornflakes with milk, which must be a global breakfast. After breakfast we decided to go downtown and buy some food in the 8-Eleven supermarket. We walked downhill to the centre of Thimphu (easy enough ;-)), found an ATM machine for Steffen and went to the 8-Eleven, where we ended up buying so much food that the sweet sales assistant rushed out into the street when she saw a taxi and hired it for us. So we went back to Bhutan Suites and put everything away in the kitchen ……. And walked downhill once again to see some of Thimphu and eat some lunch.

We had brunch at the Ambient - the restaurant made after Dutch standards - I had a huge plate of pancakes with syrup - couldn't eat it all. Luckily they weren't too sweet ;-)

After that we walked along the small art craft huts on the main street and admired all their nice looking things, went back looking for vegetables and meat, finally found some vegetables but no meat and bought potatoes, carrots, peas and some funny looking white lumps of cheese. And once again we took a taxi back uphill with heavy bags.

In the evening we decided to eat at Bhutan Suites and entering the restaurant we met a woman from Australia, Diana, who was here all by herself. Of course we invited her to eat with us. We all ordered our food and when it turned out that the kitchen made 3 servings of all we ordered so we had more than enough food! It's good food is cheap. Diana turned out to be quite talkative. She had travelled through India by herself for some weeks before coming to Bhutan and was going back there again after Bhutan. So I guess she hadn't talked to very many people for the last couple of weeks - but she certainly made up for it. When we finished eating we knew all about her travels (through 74 countries in all), her family, her divorce and job as a teacher - including all the difficult people problems from work. But she was very nice and we didn't have to do much - just say "mmm", "wow" and "really?" every now and then ;-)