Namaste to you all, this is the Nepalese greeting - also used in India it means "the divinity in me bows to the divinity in you" Thanks for the messages, lots of them too, it's great to hear from back home. In answer to the question that has been puzzling some of you, we are lucky enough to have a south facing balcony and so we washed our smalls before bedtime and they were dry by morning. Oh the degradation! I did also buy a couple ...

#I've had the same jeans on for four days now...#. Four days into our travels and we finally got our cases. The British Airways website had said the cases had been delivered and the file was closed. What that meant was that the cases had been delivered to Delhi, not Kathmandu. We tried the telephone numbers that they provided us with but they did not exist. We then found another number off the internet and that number said press one for UK fli...

Well we set off from Home courtesy of Gail to MCR airport - then after a relax in the BA lounge took the shuttle to LHR. After some issues we got the New Delhi flight (albeit in emergency seats!) Quick 8hr flight and then attempted to navigate transit at New Delhi when they identified BA had not sent our luggage... We continued on the 1hr 20m Indigo flight from Delhi to Kathmandu - n a brand new plane - and saw Everest from the plane, awesome....