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Published: December 16th 2010
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Swayambhunath a temple atop the Kathmandu Valley Happy New Year Everyone!
Technically here its 2064 and it wasn't really New Years but everyone definitely did their best!
Mainly writing to say that I won't be writing anything for almost a month. Off on the Annapurna Circuit from Sat/Sun and take a long time, especially if we can't cross Thorung La at 5416m up! Looking forward to struggling with altitude sickness, holding my knee together with duck tape and struggling even more so with finding beer in the Himalayas during the off-season...
Anyways, happy new year to you all - good luck with the resolutions! Will write when I can,
Best Wishes,
Alan
UPDATE: We've now go all the gear and we're good to go.... except we need to find a bus to Besishar somehow, local bus too! Looks like it'll be Gareth, me and Ciaran (Irish guy we've met). But we've met plenty of other people who are heading out in the near future as well so should be plenty to meet on the way!
New Years here was good fun, except having been ill the day before and having a wee too many beers in early stages made me want to
Barry and a Local
Local bloke being a dealer wrecked on his own stuff. curl up and sleep... which i did sometime shortly after 11pm. Hoping I go crazy and manage to actually see the new year in properly if I am in Australia for it next year.
Will admit to being nervous about going, but we should be fine. Hopefully my lovely new walking stick and mini supply of mars bars will keep me going if it gets hard! In all fairness, I just hope I don't scoff all the mars bars today - they are a precious currency here.
Please please someone beat up Gordon Brown so that the pound doesn't drop any lower. Any day day now Americans are going to start openly mocking us in the street for being much poorer in Nepal than they are.
Some mini points:
1) Me and Gareth are now Mike and Carol. This is thanks to a really smarmy but ultimately extremely stupid jeweler. Loving the name Carol for Gareth though.
2) Helen is now called Chompy. You just need to see/hear her devour ice cubes!
3) If a strange man comes up to you and says "Look into my eyes and maybe you'll see something", the appropriate
response is defintitely, "No I bloody well won't" in a very British voice. He left and it made him laugh so we're all happy!
4) Tonga (warm millet beer - Tibetan) is not a tasty drink, but there is lots of it.
5) "What in Europe hade been problems, in Asia became limitations to accept", Michael Palin. Is a good quote.
6) "HDNOA", is a classic spelling mistake for the back of a jacket when it's in massive type (made me laugh anyway).
7) Sitting in a steakhouse on Christmas day is great when 'Frosty the Snowman' is playing in a foreign language.
8) Drinking beer before vertical (yup, thats whilst lying in bed) when you first wake up on Christmas morning is not nearly as cool as having a stocking.
9) Drunken words from Helen, "Alan is the daughter of Jesus. Gareth is a big gay." Ummmm yeah.....
10) Trying to fill time whilst waiting for a bus that may not exist is probably boring everyone who reads this!
Happy January everyone, hear from you when we get back! xx
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