Today I have learnt a few things about Nepal... 1. You must always, always wear a sports bra when travelling in a taxi 2. Nepali taxi drivers are very good at hill starts, especially when they don't have a handbrake that works!! 3. Nepali taxi drivers also know EXACTLY how long and wide their taxi is (scarily to the centimetre!!) 4. Nepal has 2 road weather conditions: muddy/wet, and dry/dusty. 5. A Nepali 5 minutes is actually an hour and a half (the time I...

Last night I had a beautiful 14 hours sleep!! Went to bed at 8, then woke up at 10!! I have jetlag though - I can't quite seem to concentrate on much properly!! First think I did this morning was have a shower. The most amazing shower ever. I then had a breakfast of cornflakes and a banana (a delicious Nepali sweet banana!!) then went and checked my emails again. I then went upstairs to my room and started a book called "don't tell mum" - given to me by my dear ...

Today was the day I returned to the place I had lived in for 10 years. The place I had planned a trip back to for 9 years. The place I could call home. We finally got on the flight to Kathmandu from Mumbai, which took about 2 hours ish. I had naps which added up to about an hour, as I was so so tired! They showed "man of steel" (the new superman movie) on the small foldaway screens above our heads, but I didn't catch it all. When we landed, we were met by a fam...