bikey bike!

how sweet is this pink bike? i totally want it!! and i'm on the hunt for one exactly like this! i took this photo out in the western part of nepal called kailali...

i would have to say its my favourite thing that Nepal has inherited from India!

The most delectable thing i've ever eaten...

on saturday night my husband and i went for our usual dining out on the town and ventured to the 'roadhouse cafe' which has gourmet wood fired pizzas, pastas and other amazing yummy things. during our meal i announced that i was going to have dessert...and i was going to splurge. behind us there were some european's that had just cleaned up their meal and had something sizzling and bubbling served to them. my husband said "look at that" and when i turned around...i gasped and exclaimed "I'M HAVING THAT!"

'that' is a warm chocolate brownie with a dollop of ice cream on top, and placed on a hot plate with sizzling HOT chocoloate fudge! ohh dear me i think i went to heaven...i am going to have one at least once a week from now on...it is totally worth my waist line expanding!!

did i mention that it only costs $AUD3??

Our Local

Our local market where we have to bargain for our fruit and vegies...can't wait for mango season! yummmm!!

ANZAC day

just got home from our ANZAC day breakfast at the Australian Ambassador's house (and let me tell you - its a nice house! felt like i was warped back to Australia). there were monkey's stealing the food, but the atmosphere was so warm and they laying of the wreaths to the bugle playing was such a touching moment. i felt so proud to be Australian ( and maybe also lucky to be Australian and invited to such an event!).

there were havaianas, quiches, lee jeans, anzac biscuits, and even the tea cups had the Australian government's emblem on it. wow i have never noticed such small iconic things about Australia before.

but it was great, loved my little snapshot of home this morning...even if they thought i was nepali and spoke to me in nepali at first =P

here is a great tribute to our soldiers from a 5 year old boy:

sickness...

so i was thinking, in Australia when the seasons change most people normally get cold's and flu's...in Nepal when the seasons change most people get diarrhea...go figure eh?

i think i know where i would like to be right now as spring is turning into summer!!

p.s. this is my dog friend that waited with me for the work car this morning

Just Sharing...

well... i was just looking out my window in the plane and...oops! just happened to see the Himalaya's staring back at me!

The Girl Effect

Just found this really great site, focusing on a really great need. share it so we can create greater awareness to help girls like you and me.

lately...

so i haven't posted anything on this blog in a while so i thought i would write an update.

i've been feeling pretty flat lately, and a little bit over nepal and i think its because of last week spent out in the terai region (flat, dry, dusty bit bordering India). it was pretty intense, especially the heat! oh the heat! it was probably the hottest heat i've ever experienced.

i'm not sure whether it was the bandh (road block) where we drove 3 hours only to find there was a road block and had to drive all the way back only to find there was another road block because a truck had hit a goat so the owners of the goat were demanding compensation... this was so frustrating!

anyways lucky we had our organisation sticker on the car so they let us through, while a line of buses and trucks had been waiting for over an hour. i'm pretty sure this incident which led me to staying in a hotel room all by myself for another 2 days is what drove me crazy (that and the mozzies buzzing around my head at night which have probably given me malaria - silly buggers)! in less than a few days i experienced all of nepal's fault's (did i mention electriciy shortages and gas shortages as well?) which all really added onto each other and now i just want to get out of here! even if its just for a weekend or something!

anyways, thats my little rant...i am glad to be back in kathmandu, but sad because i think the mozzies have followed me here. but hey, at least its cooler and my husband is here =)

just packing

so i just started packing for my trip out west...now what do i bring?

-hiking shoes
-camera
-a roll of toilet paper
-anibacterial liquid
-mosquito repellant
-rain coat
-vogue

what is the odd thing in this list?

Wonderful Weekend!

Again a wonderful weekend was had with my husband! Yesterday we went into touristy Thamel and bought some $3 dvds...all the latest goodies! And had a bite to eat at New Orlean's Cafe - which was hippie-ish and had the best fruit juices!! yummmmo!! after, we wandered over to Durbar Marg and discovered a real 'shopping centre' to my absolute joy!! and just to add to the joy, they had a charles+keith shoe store which is where i bought my wedding shoes, but in the Philippines. On our way out we 'bumped' into a baskin and robbins ice cream store just to put the icing on my day!

This morning I had to walk to work much to my dismay, due to there being another strike 'surprise surprise'! but it was a nice change because there were barely any cars on the roads and barely any people...which means that i can walk the streets without being honked and tooted at to get off the road...wish it was like this everyday!!