Shopping, Visas and Gurkhas
Hello all. Hope you're all well.
This is a slightly delayed post in that I started it yesterday, but the power went, so now I have to start all over again. Apologies for the delay!
We had a nice few days in Kathmandu last week, doing bits of shopping, renewing our visas, and also visiting the Gurkha base near Kathmandu. The shopping was fun (I've ordered a new winter coat for myself from a tailors, and will have the first fitting when I go back to Kathmandu next week), and the visa renewal was relatively painless. All we had to do was fill in a form, give them a photograph of ourselves, pay the required rupees (about 21 quid) and hand over our passports for half a day and collect them later. Collecting them later meant we could do yet more shopping, and we also found a shopping mall which was interesting to wander around. It wasn't in the least bit like a UK or US one; for one thing it wasn't anywhere near as big, and there wasn't the variety of shops you normally see. But it was fun.
The visit to the Gurkhas was interesting too. For those of you who don't know the connection, I work for a company called Ufi / learndirect, and to cut a long story short, the company has a connection with the Army and the Army runs hundreds of Army learndirect centres in its bases across the World. So I thought that as we were going to Nepal it would be interesting to visit the Gurkha base in Kathmandu and take them some learndirect advertising and other materials at the same time. So I arranged it with them, and we went. We had a nice afternoon talking to Captain Alan Foote, who's in charge of practically everything to do with communications at the base, Kiran Koirala, who is in charge of the learning centre, and Holly Thorpe (I hope I've got her name right), who's one of the learners in the centre and has just completed the ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) Course. The picture on the right was taken at the centre.
On Saturday we did a bit of work for Natraj in their office, and then went off to meet Semanta's family in Lumbu (and I've probably got that wrong too), which isn't far from Patan. The area they live in is relatively rural, and they have some lovely views of the countryside and hills around. We met Semanta's father and mother, and his wife, three daughters and son. Semanta has a lovely family: his father used to be a teacher, and was really keen to talk to us; his wife is very friendly and kindlt made us lunch; his three daughters are both pretty and clever; and his son is quite mischieveous. So we had a nice few hours there, talking about the family and about education in general, and had a very nice lunch too.
Now we are back in Nagarkot, and it seems a lot colder than it was when we left on Tuesday. But the evenings by the fire are nice, and I wear two fleeces once the sun goes down. So I keep warm - plus we have hot water bottles when we go to bed!
Well, I think that's all for today. Take care of yourselves.
Vivienne
This is a slightly delayed post in that I started it yesterday, but the power went, so now I have to start all over again. Apologies for the delay!
We had a nice few days in Kathmandu last week, doing bits of shopping, renewing our visas, and also visiting the Gurkha base near Kathmandu. The shopping was fun (I've ordered a new winter coat for myself from a tailors, and will have the first fitting when I go back to Kathmandu next week), and the visa renewal was relatively painless. All we had to do was fill in a form, give them a photograph of ourselves, pay the required rupees (about 21 quid) and hand over our passports for half a day and collect them later. Collecting them later meant we could do yet more shopping, and we also found a shopping mall which was interesting to wander around. It wasn't in the least bit like a UK or US one; for one thing it wasn't anywhere near as big, and there wasn't the variety of shops you normally see. But it was fun.
The visit to the Gurkhas was interesting too. For those of you who don't know the connection, I work for a company called Ufi / learndirect, and to cut a long story short, the company has a connection with the Army and the Army runs hundreds of Army learndirect centres in its bases across the World. So I thought that as we were going to Nepal it would be interesting to visit the Gurkha base in Kathmandu and take them some learndirect advertising and other materials at the same time. So I arranged it with them, and we went. We had a nice afternoon talking to Captain Alan Foote, who's in charge of practically everything to do with communications at the base, Kiran Koirala, who is in charge of the learning centre, and Holly Thorpe (I hope I've got her name right), who's one of the learners in the centre and has just completed the ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) Course. The picture on the right was taken at the centre.
On Saturday we did a bit of work for Natraj in their office, and then went off to meet Semanta's family in Lumbu (and I've probably got that wrong too), which isn't far from Patan. The area they live in is relatively rural, and they have some lovely views of the countryside and hills around. We met Semanta's father and mother, and his wife, three daughters and son. Semanta has a lovely family: his father used to be a teacher, and was really keen to talk to us; his wife is very friendly and kindlt made us lunch; his three daughters are both pretty and clever; and his son is quite mischieveous. So we had a nice few hours there, talking about the family and about education in general, and had a very nice lunch too.Now we are back in Nagarkot, and it seems a lot colder than it was when we left on Tuesday. But the evenings by the fire are nice, and I wear two fleeces once the sun goes down. So I keep warm - plus we have hot water bottles when we go to bed!
Well, I think that's all for today. Take care of yourselves.
Vivienne
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