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The Nepalese Adventure: Day 28 & Day 29

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Thank You Let me start with a thank you to those of you who have donated towards the Water Harvesting Project at the village school. I am keeping the school and volunteer organisation appraised of the fund raising and the donations are very much appreciated, both by me and them. For those of you yet to donate, you can do so by following this link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/chris-anders-nepal The Himalaya Day 28 - Saturday  My last full day in Nepal. I received an email from the Volunteer organisation yesterday saying that one of their colleagues, Ms Bijaya, would come to the hotel at 10:00 to meet with me (though I had no idea what for).  Had a leisurely breakfast and was in reception for the agreed time. It turns out that Ms Bijaya was the lady who took me out on the back of her moped to the Monkey Temple back on Day 2. Basically she wanted some feedback on my experience, the village, the home-stay etc. I had also been asked to complete an
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The Nepalese Adventure: Day 26 and Day 27

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Day 26 - Thursday A good nights sleep in a proper bed. Once again amazing and totally underrated by most of us. There was no time to hang round today as I needed to be at the meeting point for 5:45 am for the 100 km, four hour bus journey out to The Last Resort where I was scheduled to do a Bungee jump followed by a swing through the canyon. Well I got there a little before 5:40, not wanting to be late. I shouldn't have worried. At about 6:00 people started showing up and then the bus was loaded and set off around 6:30. The bus was a pleasant surprise. Air conditioning, upholstery and everyone got to sit inside. We passed through a part of Kathmandu I had not experienced on my last visit. This was a modern city. Some high rise buildings. Real roads, traffic lights  where some vehicles actually stopped when they went red. A few times we stopped at what appeared to be army checkpoints and the drivers assistant (no idea what else to call him) would go and have a few wor
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The Nepalese Adventure: Days 24 & 25

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Day 24 – Tuesday The cockerel has been a bit quieter of late. Not to worry, the construction crew on the building next door now turn their radio on full blast shortly after 5:30 am. There is no winning. Perhaps I should have just started getting up at 5:30 every day. Problem is, dinner is around 8pm, sometimes 9pm, so it’s not like you can get an early night. At least I know when I get back and I can have long lies in and Karen and the kids will tiptoe around in the morning, quiet as .... No! Lets’ not have any more mice! Last full day in Gorsyang today and therefore last day of school. After a breakfast of omelette and large sweet baps, Hindou and I went round to the school building lugging the new stools, vacuum cleaner and desktop computer, as well as our daily rucksacks. No computer lessons until after lunch so divided the tasks to be done into Blue jobs and Pink jobs. Hindou vacuumed the Computer Lab whilst I fixed the computers. Lunch: Dahl Bhat After 2 day
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The Nepalese Adventure: Day 24

Day 24 - Tuesday I am so tired that I'm afraid you'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what happened today. But tomorrow I'll let you know what's going to happen tomorrow tomorrow (which is how they refer to the day after tomorrow here). 4 days hence is a string of tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow's! But anyway, tomorrow I have an early bus yo catch to Kathmandu, so I'll leave it here for now. Signing off. Chris
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The Nepalese Adventure: Day 23

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Day 23 – Monday Woke up this morning to find myself, once again, in one of those things with 4 legs, with a duvet, pillow, sheets etc. You know: A bed. Stretched luxuriously and decided to take a shower in my en-suite bathroom where there’s both a blue and a red symbol on all the water outlets. (Reading that back, its bound to invite some ribald comments.) Breakfast: Omelette, Orange Juice and Black Coffee. Texted the teacher, Parshuram, to tell him I would not make it back in time for class because of no buses yesterday etc. He replied to say don’t worry. Still quite a lot to do today yet so was ready to check out by 9:30. Receptionist told me there was a slight problem with check out as they did not know the room rate for my booking (maybe they never found it on the system.) Could I please tell them what it should be? My problem is, I’m just too honest, otherwise I could easily have saved myself 5 quid! Headed into Battar. Stopped at the computer shop where I
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The Nepalese Adventure: Day 22 (1st issue was incomplete)

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Day 22 - Sunday (Apologies if you received half finished post. Internet is so fast here and my hands were flying over the keyboard like Liberaci until I hit Publish instead of Save that is. Doh!)   Woke up this morning in Paradise. Remember? The bed, the AC etc. It was only 6am so I set the alarm for 9, snuggled in a bit deeper and went back to sleep. Got up, had a perfectly temperate shower and went down for breakfast Breakfast: 2 poached eggs on, errr, bread? Orange Juice, Toast and Jam- though the "toast" had clearly fallen out with the toaster. Black coffee. Ate it leisurely whilst catching up with the BBC News over the FREE Wi-Fi. Man, this is living! Voting today.  Election fever has certainly hit the country and everyone wants to talk about it. In fact, when I was climbing Everest on Friday, I got stopped by two women, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, who started talking to me in Nepalese. I managed to follow what they were saying as far a
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Location: Nepal Battar, Bidur 44900, Nepal
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The Nepalese Adventure: Days 19 and 20

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Day 20 - Friday I’m alive! But it was close. Without (ever) wanting to appear to show any sexual discrimination, I am sure that one particular demographic of blog readers (which shall remain undefined) will think that I was exaggerating my critical condition, whilst the men will understand what I was going through! Yesterday I was reminded somewhat of when you go into Ikea and you see their automated robots testing the kitchen drawers opening and closing 10,000 times or the simulation of sitting on their sofas to the same degree. (If you've no idea what i'm talking about, look here:            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TqTprBITvQ Well my new toilet door has gone through that same rigorous testing over the last 24 hours and stood up admirably. But, all in all, yesterday was a write off. Stayed in my room all day (other than for door testing). Had some water but no food. For sure, lying on concrete for that long is not conducive to rapid recovery
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The Nepalese Adventure: Day 21

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Day 21 - Saturday Early start this morning as I'm off to Battar on the bus which I know leaves around 8:15 am. Desperately need a shower as not had one for three days. That lingering whiff of death still clinging to me so swimming shorts on, Towel? Yep - wont forget that again! Shower Gel (savouring this luxury from the western world)  Yep! Clean shirt? Yep. I get to the showers to find 5 women there already, 2 doing their laundry, one showering, 2 waiting. Unfortunately, of the three pipes, only one is emitting any water!  I know exactly what the problem is because one day, when I was there on my own, I climbed up to investigate the inbalance of water flow from the three pipes. The last in the line gets most of the water whilst the first sometimes gets none and the middle a significantly reduced amount. Well the source of water, as I've mentioned previously, is a just a big hose that comes down the mountain from somewhere. The hose feeding these showers pours the water int
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