Return to Kathmandu (Boring Stuff - Feel Free to Skip!)

Day 1

As we had assigned the next day to all things mundane, it was decided that after yet another long, this time 7hr bus ride, checking back into our Trekkers Home Hotel that we should rest our weary bones in one of the local watering holes.

We quickly bundled up our dirty trekking clothes and deposited them at the local laundry then it was on to the Buddha bar, then after being told there was no happy hour specials, we moved on somewhere else, somewhere else, a bit of food and somewhere else, etc., etc. until our legs were totally relaxed from the trekking!!

I vaguely also remember some local bands, which generally consist of three people and no more, Singer/Guitarist, Bass Player and Percussionist.  Most of which generally have similar sets which include ‘Yellow – Coldplay’ and “Wonderwall -  Oasis” , but every now and then they will surprise you with a Doors/Creedence Clearwater/Passenger number.

At some point we went to bed happy in the knowledge that there would be no trekking the next day.

Day 2

We woke with slightly sore heads (we believe that this is in some way because of the chemicals that make up Everest Beer, clearly not the amount of them we have consumed!!) and go out for a bit of breakfast before tackling our last 7 days of blogging.

Due to yet another power cut we hunted round various cafes before realising that we were just going to have to wait until the power came back on.  After a couple of Tea’s and Sprites, we noticed that power had come back on so it was time to blog and also take the chance to charge the laptop at the same time.

Taking it in turns to put the last seven days into words and trying to eek out beers at a very slow rate, we lasted about 3 hours (and we were only half way through it) before we thought we would have a change of scenery!

A short way back down the road and we were back it one of our favourite bars (Jatra – conveniently across the road from our hotel), where we spent the next three hours completing the monster trekking blog (In the end by candlelight as there was another power cut by the time we had finished) before going back to pick up our laundry – clean clothes, yay!!!

During this period we also received DHLed replacement phone and SIM cards - thanks Gareth - you are a star!!!

The plan for the evening was to have a nice meal and a couple of beers before having an early night (as we were heading to India next day).  The meal part of the plan went OK, however as usual the couple of beers part – not so well.  In our final ‘one for the road’ pub (where for the past hour we had been propping up the live band by ourselves!), Shelley suddenly acquired a new friend in the form of a cute little dog that had jumped on the bench seat between us and had settled in for the night (Fortunately Bar owner collects the dog at the end of the night, before Shelley takes it home!). 

The bar now started filling up a bit and we ended up making some other new friends, two Irish guys (Bob & Dave?) and their new friend, Paul? who they had met on their trek and who had returned with them.  We spent the rest of the evening chatting to these guys – basically them ribbing us as they had done a much longer/harder trek (The ABC Trek), but we had the last laugh as they were going home the next day and we have another 11 months off!

After a few more beers we head home for the night – India (New Delhi) tomorrow!