The guidebooks tell you that you should climb more than 500 metres in a day once you are above 2500m to avoid altitude sickness, Nigel forgot to take this into … Continue readingSagarmatha & Gokyo

At 5 in the morning we were sitting outside our hotel waiting for the cap to pick us up. Even Thamel is quite peaceful at that time, eventually I saw … Continue readingOff to Everest

When we arrived at Chitwan, I thought that all my worst fears were going to be realised, we were going to be stuck in a big group with a bunch … Continue readingChitwan

The good thing about being stuck on a bus for 13 hours is that you get to meet people, as I have already mentioned. Someone else I met on that … Continue readingAnnapurna Trek

The journey to Pokhara from Kathmandu is supposed to take 7 hours and we left the bus station at 7 o’clock in the morning, by 2 in the afternoon we … Continue readingRoadblock

A word of warning, it is very easy to get lost in Thamel. Nepal is poor, even poorer than I thought; and Kathmandu is dusty and smelly. Our first night … Continue readingKathmandu

I always thought there was something odd about rickshaw drivers, and now I’m sure. They are just nuts. Certainly if you halve their quote you find that you are still … Continue readingRickshaw

On the Sunday I went to watch Besitkas play Bursaspor a team I had never heard of but who are currently riding high in 6th place in the Turkish league. … Continue readingIstanbul (the game)

We arrived in Istanbul a day early on the 16th April, due to the train that we wanted to get being full, this wasn’t really a problem since we were … Continue readingIstanbul

Everyone Nigel spoke to insisted that you need to go on a tour if you are only going to spend two days in Cappadocia, so we ignored them and got … Continue readingCappadocia