This from today’s Kathmandu Post:
A Plague of Strikes Upon Us?
Kantipur Report
KATHMANDU, June 22 - At least four strikes - Valley and Nepal bandas — in a month and many more in the making. As if the rest of the country felt left out in the Valley-only transport strike on Saturday called by student unions and transporters’ [...]
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 [...]
… and more to the point, absolutely delighted! This place is really cool. So many first impressions.
After a long first day, we are super tired. More later (maybe little later, maybe a bit more later). For now: Tired.
In our room at the Hotel Tibet. Great place.
