Entries Tagged as 'vernacular'

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Food, Glorious Humble Food!

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 [...]

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

More Like I Thought It Would Be Than I Thought It Would Be

First impressions of Kathmandu=less surprised, more delighted. So chill. Yes, it’s kind of got that riotous ‘civilized chaos’ thing going, but it’s so friendlylike and folks are really nice. Not that we’d been given reason to expect otherwise, of course. 
It was a long day of gathering gear for the trek, mostly. Amy and I had [...]

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

This blog is about (4)

…Nepal, and our attempts to learn a thing or two about the place before we plunge into it!
I mean, holy cow, it’s been bubbling to the top of the news an awful lot lately, huh? There’s some great pictures coming out of there (I hope we’ll get a chance to meet this photographer).
There is so, [...]