14 April: Pokhara shop till you drop MI: Today was a disgrace really, so no blog really. How do you write about shopping, eating and drinking ...... Something like .... Shopped; John and Chris met Harry's daughter at Nirvana; Shopped; Newari Restaurant next to the chilly one for lunch and beers; Crowds celebrating Nepalese New Year covered with green , yellow and red powder; Cow eating flowers on front porch of shops; Shopping; Marijuana plants in garden...

MI: we all found it hard to sleep in this morning, all up around 5. Go to sleep with the sound of dogs barking and generators keeping the intermittent lighting running, and wake up to roosters and the garage doors of the retail stores opening. Had forgotten about a few of the unique attributes of third world countries, like constant grime under your finger nails, basket next to the toilet for used toilet paper (last two things are not related to each other), bamb...

MI: Great having a stop over in KL, didn't really see any evidence of the messages for the families from the lost flight at the airport. The queues at the airport for check in were massive but we got invited to another counter, which we quickly decided another one looked even better. The karma for moving to the business class counter, thus queue jumping, was John ran Christ over with the trolley. See photo of injury and the blood bath cleanup. After coffee at Ha...