"There and back again by Alicia Baggins" :D

Wel-come (That is how they like to write it)

So Giselle accidentaly called her rucksack Elton earlier,instead of Elvis. Tutut. As we were packing are bags on the last night in Kathmandu Giselle made a little joke about my bag maybe being called Baggins, I decided this was a good name, "oh yeaa ! together we are Alicia Baggins like bilbo or frodo" then made my self chuckle at the thought of naming the blog 'There and back again' by Alicia Baggins ( if you no nothing about lord of the rings that would of all gone straight over your head, apologies.)

Our last day in Kathmandu started with us desperately trying to book a bus to take us to Dumre for the next morning.We found a bus stop but it didnt go there.In the process we had to cross a rather large cross road, which i thought would be the end of me. The locals were just crossing all over the place and I guess were just hoping the masses of traffic coming towards them would stop. We gave up eventually and just went back to the hotel, the nice boy at the front desk rang up a place and booked it over the phone for us. It cost us about 6 pounds, sure we could of got cheaper if we had gone to the bus stop, but it did save us a lot of time and hassle.

The amount of time spent on bus booking meant we didn't really have enough time to go to the monkey temple. Instead we sat on a roof top restaurant and had some lunch, it was very nice but was abit expensive and giselles ginger beer did taste nearly the same as my 7up. After our tummys were full we went on the hunt for a new bag as mine decided to break literally as soon as we had left our house. Didnt end up getting one as im rubbish at bartering, and convinced my self I could sew it up (suprisingly my sewing has kept it together pretty well!)

After lots of wondering around and a man telling us several times he liked our trousers we went back to our hotel ( Annupurna Guest house). It was the cheapest and nicest place we had eaten. It cost us 350Rs for 2 plates of veggi fried rice and two pots of tea, though one of the teas had milk in it and they also gave us water which we drank some of as we didn't want to be rude. It does say in our lonely planet guide that you should be able to drink the tap water in Kathmandu this time of year (but not in the monsoon season). Im writing this nearly 2 days later and im still fine so I think were ok.

The family came and sat with us putting the television on.We watched a few things with them but my favourite was a comedy. I didn't understand the story fully but a man was looking for something. One of the bits I remember very clearly was a man laying down on a park bench waving his legs and arms around in the air. That had the whole family in hysterics, it was amazing they all just start laughing uncontrollably at the same time. I looked at Giselle and burst into laughter. (strangely that has been one of my favourite parts of the trip so far, the family at the guest house were very lovely and welcoming and Id happily go back to Annupurna guest house again.) While I was watching the TV I had 'a light bulb' as Giselle said and decided that traveling to the moon and climbing mount everest are nearly as good as each other. I'd rather climb mount everest. That is my new aim in life, mount everest here I come !!

Dear dog behind our guest house, I have a bus to catch at 6.30 tomorrow morning so please don't wake me up barking. Thank you.

Bye bye Kathmandu.