Today was an adventure within an adventure! I started late in the morning because I didn't sleep particularly well to start and was catching up with jet lag! This meant I annoyingly missed my free breakfast, so I had a cereal bar Instead to get me through the morning! I decided to get stuck in to Kathmandu so went to 'The Monkey Temple' by foot first. It was about a half hour walk through an almost third world destination and walking up hundreds of steps in the...

Changing at muscat was easy! I even had time to share a costa coffee with my new, now sober friend! I was 1 of approximately 5 westerners (now friendless) on this 200 person flight and the rest were Nepalese!! This was daunting at first but apart from their vast amounts of luggage slowing us down the flight went smoothly. The airport was slightly different to the ones I'm used to! Security consisted of a man sitting by the x-ray machine and a consistently beepin...

Well it's only the first day and I've already got a story to tell! I went through security with no problems (although a bit teary eyed), departures was good and then boarded fine... but while sitting in my seat on the plane it was like playing human roulette as people walked by the empty seat next to me!! Finally a middle aged Brit with a bright bright red face walked up the isle to the empty seat and sat next to me! He seamed very talkative, which was a posit...