Lots of complaints from you about crap weather for the bank holiday. Well I think Kathmandu has you all beat on the mental weather front. We had a couple of weeks of blistering hot weather. The kind where its so humid you never really get dry after a shower and we had to buy a fan so we could sleep at night. Though we did manage to go for a swim at a local hotels pool last weekend which was lovely and probably the first time we felt it was a real advantage being ...

So at last I get a few minutes to myself to update the blog !!! M who has been sick for the last 2 or 3 days has now recovered and has had to go off to work. For me on the other hand, today is a holiday (as is tomorrow and the day after...working for the government has its perks ! Actually today is a pretty momentous one for Nepal.Following the elections that were held last month, today sees the first meeting of the new Constituent Assembly which has been formed...

We're now comfortably ensconced in our new apartment and feeling quite at home. Our landlady, Meena-ji, has been really kind and helpful providing us with lots of pieces of furniture, even a black and white TV so G was able to watch repeats of the Man Utd games - Oh great! - as well as numerous cups of tea and Indian cakes! The day before we were due to move in we came over to organise drinking water and gas for cooking, as well as to look at getting carpets sor...

Well, we survived and are now having cappuccinos and brownies in Kathmandu's best coffee houses! I feel pretty much as I expected to feel at the end of our week's village stay - very relieved to be back in the city, but also very glad I had the experience! We'll do this blog in 2 halves so you get both our impressions - as we each stayed with a different family and they are a bit different, and as in Nepal things are different for the men anyway G's perspective i...

Well, we survived and are now having cappuccinos and brownies in Kathmandu's best coffee houses! I feel pretty much as I expected to feel at the end of our week's village stay - very relieved to be back in the city, but also very glad I had the experience! We'll do this blog in 2 halves so you get both our impressions - as we each stayed with a different family and they are a bit different, and as in Nepal things are different for the men anyway G's perspective i...