Sunday, 13 March 2011

Still alive and not yet ill. Always a bonus.

For breakfast we purchased a box of fruity bars, a bottle of water and tried our first Nimbooz (this is a lemon flavored drink which we came to love) this came to around 400 rupees. Dubar square was harder to find than we anticipated and my orienteering skills seem to be horrific, so Giselle is now in charge of getting us from A to B. On the way we decided to invest in a map of the area, lucky for us two rather attractive male travelers were also in the shop. I think we upset them as we wouldn't do a book change with them. Sorry guys but i want to read the one I brought with me first.

My first sighting of a Nepalese cow 
We eventually found Dubar square and paid 300Rs each to get in,  I found it confusing and am sure if you came from a different direction you could get in with out paying, but maybe it wouldnt be worth it. I saw my first cow (in nepal not in my whole life) layed down behind a temple, and lots of pigeons. Also saw my first real life monk. A street you should try and avoid is one we got told to go down if you wanted to buy a phone, I think its called Nhyokha street, here young men like to throw water bombs (it seems just to be this one street) some one later told us that they think they were probably preparing for Holi the festival of colour and water. Also try and avoid the motor bikes, young men like to swerve them at you, one shouted "long live" after.....thanks for that. Or you could just avoid young men.

Giselle has now made friends with a shop owner. Me and Giselle nearly lost each other as I had stopped to read a sign and she hadn't noticed. Now every time we walk past the mans shop he laughs and shouts something along the line of "Dont you loose her", "Theres your friend", "You should hold her hand", and to which we just laugh, smile and carry on. He seems like a happy man. We had dinner in a place called Yak restaurant, it was very quiet which was a bit concerning but it was quite early and got busier as we were leaving. The food was nice, though we did see some ants crawling up a wall. We figured if there were loads of them they would round all the sauces that were on our table.

Our scrummy meal and the setting for my slightly terrifying
nose bleed.
Half way through the meal just to freak Giselle out I had a nose bleed. Admittedly it freaked me out as well. I read my medical book ( aka best birthday present Giselle has ever got me) cover to cover that night in search of any thing to do with nose bleeds. It says not to worry, so mum don't worry about it ! I have now however started to take a mask out with me as the air pollution is crazy, we have been wearing scarves but there not very thick. The total cost of the meal was 490 rs for both of us.

Was woken up by a barking dog last night, a cat then decided to join in screeching.

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