Nepal Day #4 Chitwan
November 15, 20188 am start. Off to the elephant safari……..mmmmm, not really sure how we felt about this to be fair. The elephants seem absolutely fine but didn’t like the idea. The reality is that they have been using elephants for yrs & they seemed well cared for. There was 4 of us on a little platform…
Nepal Day #3 Travel to Chitwan
November 14, 2018After battling with Access Nepal we were picked up by a taxi to go to ‘bus station’…aka a line of buses for about a mile on the road!! Also discovered that the time on the bus ticket is bollocks. Always 30mins later than stated….& we arrived early!! We had our breakfast box! Weird sandwich, 2…
Nepal Day #2 – Kathmandu
November 13, 2018City tour of Kathmandu – 8.45am. Us & 3 others. Saw the sights of Kathmandu. Pretty impressive. Kumari was the ‘eye opener’ – 10 girls for Buddist families that fit loads of different criteria – beauty, hair colour, the shade of skin, eye colour etc Then they scare the shit out of them (masks, severed…
Nepal Day #1 & #2 – Travel & Kathmandu
November 8, 2018Two days before the trip we discovered something weird with our flights – they weren’t confirmed. Eventually we rang them to find out what was going on & they very calmy said that the flight out we booked had been cancelled! WTF!! Just as calmly they then said another had been put on if we…
Porto, Portugal Day #4
September 18, 2018Final Day. Was going to be a long day as our flight wasn’t until 10 pm that evening. Today was a ‘tick all the remaining boxes’ days. This started early with queuing up for tickets to get into a bookshop!! WTF! 5 Euro each. Why? Because it has a ‘swirly’ staircase that Harry Potter author…