Saturday, 11 October 2014

So..... didn't make it in 2013 but off again in October 2014

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Flying to Cambodia from Heathrow on  Monday, 4th November, to help out  at Grace House Community Centre, near Siem Reap.  

Monday, 24 December 2012

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Some of the last photographs on my camera


It is amazing that there is any power at all  in Kathmandu with wiring like this.  
Are these tomatoes or chillies?
Ginger, but not sure what is on the left...
Radishes - ate them on most days


,
Yet another butcher shop selling wild boar




The stupa at Boudhnath, one of my favourite places to visit 




                                                            
                                                                   
 Pilgrims walk  anti-clockwise, around the stupa daily and  rotate  the prayer wheels
as they chant their mantras.

Saturday, 15 December 2012

Now back home in Yorkshire.  Unfortunately brought home the dreaded Asian tummy bug as well as so many very special memories.   Will update photographs of my time in Kathmandu tomorrow. 

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

More Kathmandu Colour



 
 Street vendors in Kathmandu can be irritating but this lady from Kathmandu was charming and beautiful.   She had good English although had never been to school, and said she thought she might be 80.  I could not resist buying one of her 'coral' necklaces which were exactly the same colour as her shawl. 
One of the myriad number of beadshops in the city - and sensible tourist with smog mask
Marigold garlands similar to those made for me by the children

People and places in Kathmandu

 
Durbar Square



The woman in front of this statue was making an offering of a marigold and waving an incense stick



Rickshaw is probably the fastest and safest way to get around the city


Amazing face painting and extraordinary headgear.  This sadu tried to explain the meaning of his headdress but sadly I didn't understand a word he said
Terracota elephants  over a shop doorway