7th Oct ‘12 The extent of our activities today was walking down our road to the taxi area, being claimed by our previous driver and then going to the Ghurkha museum. This was a very interesting place detailing the history of the Ghurkas from the start to present day. There were displays highlighting campaigns they were involved in, personal stories of extreme valour and courage, medals won, uniforms worn, lots of photos for each of the regiments. All this was accompanied by sound effects of battles and bagpipe playing. An elderly gentleman in his uniform kept appearing next to us commenting now and then on things we were looking at and he also operated the sound effects buttons. He followed us around the three floors... read more

1st Oct ’12 Kathmandu to Pokhara After a quick brown water shower it was downstairs, settle the bill and then six of us were led to the bus station by a tiny little man we hadn’t seen before. On the road outside the main bus station was a humongous line of buses and we dodged our way past tourists, bags, people selling water, snacks and fruit and then found ourselves cut off from our man by a large van on the pavement. We couldn’t get past as the van was moving and a continuous stream of people were coming towards down both sides of it in the other direction. Eventually I forced myself through and there was no sign of our guy so I just headed along the pavement and then a little old man asked ... read more

22nd – 23rd Sept ’12 JFK to LHR So we didn’t make it to Coney Island, it was going to take too long so we just mooched about instead, visited Times Square and saw the singing Naked Cowboy and the Red Indian both of whom weren’t actually naked but still caused quite a stir! Had a final visit to the Cold Stone Creamery – yum yum, but it was very quiet this time and nobody sang which was a bit of a let down. Before we knew it we were on our way to the airport. We were flying from terminal 4 which was a bit of a building site and had hardly any shops to look in, we got a bit swizzed by the duty free as we bought them from the shop before we ... read more

11-12th Sept ’12 Atlanta, Georgia We drove through Mississippi, a slight wrong turn into Arkansas then through Alabama (which was really green, with loads of forests) to eventually arrive in Atlanta. The whole purpose of coming here was to go to the Uproar Festival in Atlanta the next day. We did a practise run to the venue as we gave up on the idea of trying to get there by public transport and hopefully we will be able to find our way back again in the dark tomorrow! The next day we woke up and got up late and then in the afternoon drove to Aaron’s Amphitheatre for the gig. On our way in we were told that the Lawn was closed (this is the grass area at the back of the amphitheatre and basically the ... read more

4th Sept ’12 Houston to New Orleans, Louisiana A very long drive today! After crossing the border into Louisiana we stopped at a visitor centre for a break and were given lots of leaflets and maps by one of the really helpful lady on the desk. Then we drove through Cajun country and into Plantation country passing towns like Lafayette, Baton Rouge and Blue Bayou – it was like an episode of True Blood! Then we were driving over the swamp lands and maybe it’s because of all the recent rains due to Issac but it really stank! Then we were back into heavy traffic and entering the New Orleans area. Sadly our motel is miles out of the city centre, on a busy main road with nothing much near it but a derelict hotel next ... read more