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you. It is an alphabet of colour and noise with no let up- air heavy and

girl' was revealed!

Kathmandu Guesthouse has gates that lock at night and a guard. It's a

lamas; mo-mo's; monkeys; mangoes; noise; noise and more noise; oranges;

cloying; beggars with round copper bowls and babies that cry for money;

cars careering over choppy concrete streets; dirt and dust; elephants of

stone or metal; foreigners; flowers; gore-tex; hooters continually

0930 we enjoyed breakfast outside. A few heavy heads and blurry

At 2030 we went with Bhanu (our guide) to Rum Doodles restaurant

odours; poverty seen through open doors; quiet somewhere; rupees; rice;

cage' styled door and we crawled through finally reaching our rooms

appeared to differ slightly in standard Dave and Pete (C) seemingly

sun; seat; silk; smoke; spitting; traffic; umbrellas (according to Pete);

few stories on RMs' way of life... The meal ended with Pete (C)'s party

Zen Buddhists.

Jet-lag, tiredness in combination with beer and caffeine lead to a

Walking down the dark alleyways and avoiding being mowed down by

and enjoyed a meal.

24/04/03 (Elaine Holmes)

guesthouse entrance locked. A security guard then opened a `Hamster

delight of the guys) before boarding our minibus to the Guesthouse.

On arrival at the guesthouse we all checked in to our rooms which

vehicles; water dirty and clean; xylophones (I'm mak ng it up); yaks and

eyes were visible and the tale of Pete (T's) knowledge of a `Dirty Dutch

where we'd be staying for 3 nights before starting our journey.

piece a lighted toothpick perched on top of his head!

24/04/03 Cont...(Alison Dewynter)

around 0100 when the first of us left, only to find the gates of the

occupying the `Bridal Suite'!

the local traffic (mainly rickshaws), we piled into a local Irish Bar! It was

sounding; heat; incense; joss sticks; japonica; kit shops everywhere;

haven from the city where the sounds, sites and smells can overwhelm