Hey again. I'm writing from Kathmandu, where I just picked my parents up at the airport a couple of days ago. It's very exciting that they are here - I haven't seen them since I left England over a year ago. Here we are together in Patan Durbar Square, among the old temples and palaces. It's really fun to be able to show Nepal to them, and on the weekend we'll head to Pokhara, and they'll get to experience where I live and work, and meet my friends here.
My parents spent 2.5 weeks in northern India, before coming on to Nepal. Unfortunately, my mom managed to stumble on a step in Delhi early in their trip, and rolled here ankle and hairline fractured her right foot. She's been gamely hobbling around the sights of India, managing to still get to most things, travelling around in bicycle rickshaws, and even once by elephant! She hopes to get a walking cast put on today, which will improve her mobility considerably - and maybe mean she can ditch the rather inadequate crutches she got in India. In the picture below, I'm trying to rig up a temporary fix for her, using the Leatherman tool that I got from my sister and brother-in-law for Christmas (and which just arrived with my parents). Richard looks on in the background - we are staying in their house while in Kathmandu, which is lovely.
Mom got a couple of neat shots of people waiting in line at the water taps in the Durbar square. Many of the old houses still don't have running water in them, and so people still line up at the water taps in the square as they have for centuries - though perhaps with more colourful water containers than they once had.
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