Quick post as it’s getting late, about 8.30pm and am getting cold for the first time sitting in a cafe here.  Suddenly gone a bit more autumnal yesterday and today.  Have such a backlog of material to send to the blog, can’t tell you!  The bandwidth here isn’t up to much, pics and vids especially, take AGES to upload.  Still, have managed to put a few more Tihar Festival pics n vids over on PhotoBucket at:

http://s529.photobucket.com/albums/dd331/isojonesnepal/

Let me know if you can’t find or see ‘em.

Have also got some media from a lovely visit during reading week two weeks ago to a place called Namo Buddha.  Tell you more later but the main point for now is – The Mountains!   As in THE Mountains!!!! 

Will add one small video clip onto the Photobucket page asap, URL as above.

It seems that I might have scanned past Mount Everest when I filmed the Himalaya from a ridge on the way up to Namo Buddha!  WOW!  The view was stunning & my friends and I just had to stop the car to look back out to those snowy mountains.  You can probably hear us wowing about it on the footage.  And to think I didn’t even know Everest might have been among them!  Don’t laugh, I only ever did social Geography in bloomin’ South America in Geography at school.  I can tell you ALL about how to tap a rubber tree, but how to recognise the world’s tallest peak from afar.  Nope.  Nothin’ useful like that…  It was a great school, just they were more into social geography at the time than things like the world’s tallest mountains.  Oh well! 

Note that if there, Everest won’t the tallest peak in the vid as is further away than some of the others.  Still…  WOW!

So it MIGHT be there (and if anyone knows for sure, please tell me!).

Himalayan Mountains from Namo Buddha - Lovely!

In the next few weeks am planning a trip to Nagarkot to see more mountains and most likely Pokhara over the Christmas break too, so expect more pictures of and ravings about mountains from me.  Oh yes!