Entries by Just (7)

Sunday
Mar272011

Let the ride begin

So after promising we’d update our blog MUCH more often, I’ve not written a word since arriving back in Nepal in December! What to do? So much has happened! Fortunately the all suffering Nikon has been at the ready throughout.. And now I have a shoebox full of adventures to share with you every day! Well – lets not get our hopes up too much:)

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Friday
Jun042010

The great escape!

Well all that effort with our Newsletter - and D and I didn't write any blogs for 3 weeks! Time to make amends.. We've covered so many miles this last month it's all a bit of a blur... But did we tell you the one about the 200,000 Maoist demonstrators descending on the capital while we make a mad dash for the hills?

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Tuesday
Jun012010

Our first Newsletter! 

Our first Newsletter is hot off the press.  We've had something of a crash course in desk top publishing - so we hope it's laid out OK. Just click the images below to read it or download the whole Newsletter as a PDF.  


                                                                             

Sunday
May092010

Let there be light! 

Back in Kathmandhu again we drove out to the airport today on our little red scooter in the searing heat, arriving with a fresh coating of brown dust head to toe.. "Very fetching" says Dita looking at my once white shirt.. The clever little bugger is wearing brown!

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Thursday
Apr292010

Building our first road!

Parking our 3 ton trucks full of sand within site of the village - just across the valley on an adjacent hillside - we seemed so very, very close. Then the muddy mountain road simply stopped. It would have to be by hand from here. Ater 19 hours on the road covering little over 300 kilometres we were all already exhausted. But it would be 500 man journeys down the mountain and up the other side again from here. Can't we just build more road we wondered...?

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