Nepal Challenge by Steve_Shears

April 9-11th Kathmandu -London

We spent our last few days rummaging around the fair trade shops in Patan and Kathmandu looking for gifts for the folks back home. I found some Lapis for my youngest daughter and other people filled up the available space in their bags that had been created by giving away their stuff to the guides and porters in Pokhara. Most of us were leaving on the 11th but we had to wait for hours that day for a window in the smog that was shrouding the Kathmandu valley - it was a particularly good batch of it that morning but we eventually got away to Doha and eventually a very cold and wet London. I felt a bit ill and it developed by the next night into a full scale throwing up fest - however, a few more days of not eating seemed to do the trick -I was getting used to that by now! I was sort of glad to be back in the UK but had weeks of feeling quite dislocated - it was a strange feeeling of not being quite sure where I belonged -that was slightly odd but it passed (well for now anyway)