Yesterday we visited with and briefly interviewed one party to the Creation Story of the Little Sisters Fund.
It’s a sweet story that I don’t want to spoil here, but Bindhaya was the first girl that Trevor Patzer was introduced to after he asked Usha Acharya how he might help the country of Nepal.
We had met [...]
Ringmo Restaurant, one of Kathmandu’s very first restaurants (36 years old, according to Dil, a co-owner), is right up the street from us.
They’re serving the food we’ve been looking for. The menu is humble and 100% homemade, as far as I can tell.
So far we’ve eaten the best hot-and-sour soup either of us has ever [...]
On a minor note of inconvenience, we are having a tough time finding good food, cheap. Kitchens/restaurants in these parts seem either to be of the supremely grubby, guaranteed-to-make-you-sick kind, or of the backpackers’-delight-rich-and-fatty-comfort-food-and-a-little-too-expensive-to-boot variety.
We’ve got a modest budget for our daily consumables, and our hotel provides a great breakfast spread. Lunch and dinner are [...]
The government of Nepal has declared at least a three day ‘holiday’, during which basically nothing will take place. Unless, of course, you count the transition of the government from a 239 year old monarchy to a nominally democratic republic.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) we plan on doing very little in the way of official business. We understand [...]
We hope to get five minutes to put together a couple of entries and a few photos here shortly. But for now, we’re back in Kathmandu. The trek was absolutely amazing–all the superlatives are falling short–and it’s super exciting to be back here ready to start our Little Sisters Fund documentary.
The first shoot on that [...]
