Ever hopeful that James would wake up this morning feeling better, we woke at 5.30am and quickly worked out that sitting on a bus for the next 10 hours was not the best option. I promptly went downstairs and asked Khem to cancel the bus completely - we would need to rethink our options. The plan had initially been to go to Pokhara and chill for a few days there (3 nights). We were going to meet up with a contact we'd been given by one of James's old custome...

So, last night, the unfortunate happened and James succumbed to some sort of tummy issue (I'll spare you the details), thus delaying our trip to Pokhara. Khem was brilliant and rebooked us on the next bus tomorrow, I emailed the hostel to let them know. All good. As we'd had to get up at 5.30am to sort ourselves out, James spent most of the morning napping while I made good headway on a new book (called 'The Girl in the Picture' about the Vietnam war and the fa...

(Tuesday 22/09) The bus back to Kathmandu wasn't as early this time so we had a bit more of a leisurely start. I (Podge) was a little apprehensive about the journey back as this time, we'd be on the side of the massive drop into the abyss…(probably making it out to sound worse than it is - parents, please try not to worry!). James took the window seat and thoroughly enjoyed the ride, often instructing me not to look out the window when I poked my nose out fro...

As our visas were going to take a week to come through, I thought it would be a good idea to try and escape Kathmandu for a few days and suggested we head down to Chitwan national park for a bit of break from the hustle, bustle and pollution. Having had our fill of cities around Europe, we thought it might give us the chance to unwind a little so set about making plans. We managed to change our booking from 7 nights to 3, with the promise of coming back to sta...

Today's mission was to get our Indian visa application form submitted. After a lovely breakfast where we're staying, we went in search of a) an ATM and b) the embassy. Getting cash was interesting as you can only take out a limited amount each time, so had to keep putting the card back in…this worked a few times and then just stopped so we had to go and find some more…annoying that these ones seem to charge for taking cash out - but when needs must. We had ...