Hi Folks

Sorry its been a while - I have no apologies apart from my slackness, travel makes you tired !!!
So, what have we been up ta ?

Well from the top:

We did the Annurpurna Sanctuary trek with Exodus and met a pile of fab an funky new friends (two piccies below) trip was awesome, made you feel very humble to be alive when the mountains stare into to your very soul …

Then we went back to Katmandu and moved across town to the world famous KTM Guest House in the heart of mad and crazy Thamel. We ate out for a few nights and I promptly got very ill – warning KTM will poison you !! –

We spent a few fruitless days queuing to get a form, to get an application, to queue to get a processing slip, to try and get a transit visa through India @ the Indian Embassy in KTM. To sum up the process ….

A complete fucking farce and joke from start to finish, how the fuck do they expect to compete in a global economy with that incompetent 18th centuary bureaucracy is beyond me. Give up now...

Then we decided that KTM wasn’t good for the soul (read health) so we arranged a 3 day trek around the KTM ridgeline – much fun – we even had dinner with the Maoists rebels, next to an army outpost ( quote from the Buddhist Maoist rebel – ‘we all get out of here alive’ - very jim morrison) piccie directly opposite our lodge and piccie of the valley afta brekkie the next day.

Then we got back to KTM packed and headed for Brekkie and Singapore – unfortunately we ate brekkie @ my sisters namesake and promptly got poisoned again.
This made for an interesting journey through to Delhi, with the sight of checking into the hotel, life doors opening on our floor and projectile vomiting over nice white tiles !!!! - very cool (not!)

Checked out next morning and headed for Singapore, spent a few days tucked up under air con to recover. These are the sights that greated us when we eventually ventured out.

Finally got flight to Perth and holed up in very special Fre’o, chilled out, did the sights and spent time staring @ KA6 (pby the most beautiful boat the world has ever seen) and the big wide blue thing called Indian…..

Headed down to Margaret River and did a wine tour.

This resulted in an additional $600 stress on the already stressed budget and 30 bottles of wine headed for Newtown and Christmas.

We then pitched up @ our very cool and fab friends place in Newtown in Sydney and have been here for the last two weeks chilling, sightseeing, drinking copious amounts of wine, and experiencing this amazing city. – methinks a diet and detox is in order very very soon

Wednesday (3^rd Jan) we hit the road again head for the mountain south east for a few weeks.

More from the road soon ....

jr