Every Which Way But Lost

  Wednesday 22nd November Pokhara to Bagal Thok Distance Cycled: 47.06 km Total Distance: 17157.72 km In the end we spent 4 nights in Pokhara getting some admin and planning completed. We’ve been arranging trips for India as well as trying to decide our future schedule. We’ve also been trying to find a ‘sailing gig’ for Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Plus we have a TV frenzy; Masterchef, The Apprentice and First Dates – thanks to Carl’s special site. On…

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  Saturday 28th – Tuesday 31st October Kathmandu Saturday – Today we’re hiring a moped and driving 31km to Nagarkot and a hashing event with Ben. Unfortunately Ben has a monkey emergency at home – apparently they’re pulling his washing off the line and trying to break into his house so he’s later than planned meeting us. We follow Ben on his moped. The roads are rough and the traffic is bad and we arrive 40 minutes after the event…

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I thought I’d write this post because we’d heard so many rumours regarding Indian visas suggesting we’d only get a 3 month visa. For us the process started 24th October. We headed to the Indian Embassy Visa Office (EVO)in Kathmandu. Next to the EVO there are several visa application offices and we used the one to the right of the EVO. They completed and printed the visa application forms for us, took our photos and photocopied our passports. This cost…

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  Tuesday 3rd October Villa Village, Changu Narayan – workaway Today it’s Exercise Clean-up. There’s rubbish everywhere around the house . Then I go up to the garden to cut down the long grass with a sickle. After a few hours I give up because I have leeches between my toes and all over my feet. Rubbing salted water over our legs, feet and hands is supposed to be a deterrent but sadly no one’s told the local leeches. Meanwhile…

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  Wednesday 13th September Thamel Kathmandu After a glorious night’s sleep we have a nice breakfast on our hotel’s roof terrace. The walk up 6 flights sure gives us an appetite! Today we need to unpack all our luggage and put the trikes back together. There’s a narrow street outside the hotel and with mopeds, pedestrians and the odd car passing by we set to it. We quickly draw a crowd of interested watchers. After about 3 hours work we…

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