Day 71 - 72 These blogs will now be boring so if you are looking for some funny anecdotes, just quit now and get on with your day. No stories of snakes or cocktails or heart-thumping journeys. Real life has started and it is mainly as mundane as anywhere else. We've had a busy few days settling into ex-pat life in Kathmandu. Fern and Clover started school at Riviera International Academy, a mixed school from age 3-16 in the suburbs. It seems to be a 30 mi...

Day 70 Katya is in Kathmandu! We made it. We left Darjeeling a day or so early having decided we had had enough of damp clothes and rain. A 3 hour jeep journey down the steep hills to Karkahbitta, border town of India/Nepal actually took 5 sweaty hours. We had to share the jeep with a number of locals - one who sat in the boot and vomited the whole way, an assortment of men, one woman whose mobile played the Top Gun theme and who seemed to receive an inordin...