Then the big day. The birthday present to myself. The sky is clear and completely blue, as it should be, a slight shimmer of clouds around the Machapuchare, nothing exciting. The view of the Sarankot hill shows green and brown and yellow, forest and more forest and above that the peak. The starting point. Perfect prospects for…
Pokhara - Rediscovered
A lot has changed in the last almost 45 years. Nothing remains of the quiet, remote town, the smelly streets littered with rubbish, but where you could buy wonderful cakes. The only foreigners who were still viewed with suspicion were hippies like us. Somehow out of place. I remember our campsite,...