Sunday – 8 January 2009
After a good nights rest we breakfasted on curd and fruit and planned the day whilst reading the local paper – all very sophisticated. We had wondered why there was somuch rubbish on the streets, apparently since we left for Tibet the rubbish hasn’t been collected due to problems at the rubbish dump site – the outcome being that rubbish is in giant festering piles on the streets for the last 13 days. With the warm weather, it iscertainly smelling none too good.
We headed to Thamel and sorted and backed up photos and caught upon emails, which took some time. We caught up with Suresh and updated him on the trip and then had a cup of coffee before hitting the shops for the final time.
First on the list were some new clothes for SB. We seem to have lost quite a bit of weight in Tibet, so now things are very baggy. We found some that he liked (a miracle for anyody knowing SB’s hatred of shopping) and also got some t-shirts. They only had the one pair of trousers, so decided to try some of the other million trekking shops in Thamel. Picking up momentoes of our stay as we wandered around. After visiting the million trekking shops, we gave up on trousers. We dropped the shopping back at the hotel stopping on the way for SB to have a shave at the local barber as he is starting to look like a woolly mammoth. The guy next to SB was having the full treatment – hair colour on head and eyebrows -very funny. Anyway SB’s trim finished with a head, neck and back massage all very vigorous with lots of manipulation and pulling/pushing, even his eyebrows got a workout.
After starting to pack, we headed to a tibetan restaurant for dinner (yes I said I would never eat noodles again), but this restaurant does good mexican food and also picked upour laundry.
We finished packing and thought we would actually settle down and watch a movie when surprise, surprise, the power went off as usual. Living here would just be depressing sometimes and everyone depends on little portable generators to fill the gaps of 16-19hours per day of no power.
At the hotel there is a large generator but that sometimes either doesn’t work or has no diesel, so it is candles and torches always at the ready.
We leave Npeal tomorow and no electricity or garbage collection will not be on the things we will miss. Not that India is any better, but as Nepal is selling them the majority of their electricity here is hoping we won’t have power cuts.
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