Time for more cool stuff...

I think I am up to 22

22) Kathmandu is a rabbit warren and if you duck down alleyways and take a random left and a suspiciously closed looking right there is a whole world to explore! (I met a French guy who, along with a fab book called "kathmandu the hidden city", took me exploring)

23) Turns out Monasteries are fun places to hang out on a Friday night and when monks chant they sound like didgeridoos.

24) When you are in a monastery on a hill on a Friday night, and you look out over Kathmandu, all you can hear from the city below is people singing and dogs barking...seriously those are the only two sounds of Kathmandu

25) Hindi movies are far racier than you would ever imagine. I saw my first one a while ago and quite frankly, I was shocked!

26) I've re-learnt never to judge anyone or anything. The politicians here talk no sense and the child labourers who spend their days working in brick kilns or breaking rocks can have impassioned debates on 'meaningful participation' and can make amazing radio programs (I'm working on a project with street kids / child labourers).

27) In the dairies here (or at least the one near my house) you can buy all sorts of milk based products cheese, yoghurt, curd...but you can't buy milk! You can stand at the counter and drink milk, but try and take some away with you and all hell breaks loose!

28) The old women here rule the roost, totally!

29) One of the dangerous items you need to remove before flying here are teeth!

30) Summer comes here practically the day that people predict it would and when it comes the sky is such a brilliant blue and you forget what it feels like to be cold.