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A few random thoughts:-
* I'm not totally convinced that Bus Driver is the best occupation for people who believe their future lives would be improved via reincarnation.
* No matter how nice you try to be, if you look anything like me a Nepalese baby will cry if you even glance in their direction.
* Royal Enfields are the ultimate motorcycle in Nepal and India. Anything bigger is simply not discussed, other than by some misguided American tourists.
* The Nepalese, over uncounted numbers of years, have constructed a very substantial network of paved walking paths into & around the mountains. They are an engineering marvel, particularly as they have been built completely by hand. Somehow though, the same people do not appear capable of filling in a pothole even if traffic detours through their front room in order to avoid it.
* The world will be a slightly darker place when the Nepalese (and Indians) start to use 'Welcome' rather than 'Wel-come' at their Airports, in their signs, on their Hotels and, yes, on their Wel-come mats.
* Your job is still irritating even when you are on holidays and are 6,000 kilometres away from it.
* The Hotel staff here (including the Owner) work 16 hours a day, seven days a week during the tourist season. They do not get sick pay or time off even for the Dasain Festival where the Country practically comes to a stand-still and everyone visits their families. Everyone but Hotel staff that is. In other words, don't whinge about your job - it's pretty easy really and you are well paid for it.
* When the Hotel owner tells you the person who is about to take you by car from sea level to 1,600 metres in 38 minutes flat is a "good driver" he actually means that this person simply drives faster than everyone else and has not yet been killed in a car accident.
* Nepalese tyres, despite being on average 12" in diameter and totally bald, are the toughest and most puncture proof tyres in the universe - much tougher in fact that those on the Toorak Taxis found back home in the suburbs.
* Desley and I both like birds - Des even knows the name of many of those found in our backyard at home. Here though, they are a complete unknown so I have started allocating my own names to them. So far we have:- Helmet-headed Redarse, Grey banded black b****** and the Lesser Nuggety Norkwort.
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