19 February, Thursday. Pokhara. Rita's cloudbuster!
09:00 wake up.
Another beautiful warm day.
We went to H.E. for a coffee, Gomaya and many other guides I know from before are there. Nice to catch-up with them.
At 11:00 Rita left with Sun Rise Paragliding, I stayed with the volunteers who were going paragliding with Blue Skye. They gave me a lift to the starting point. I was there still in time to make pictures of Rita's take-off.
Not sure what was more scary: paragliding or 'flying' down the road in free gear! But I did enjoy the peace and the views. We had a clear view of the Himalayan Mountain range, but flying down on this bumpy 'road' with this speed made it impossible to make pictures.
Blue Skye dropped me off at their office, so I started to walk towards the landing zone.
After my walk for about already 25 minutes the jeep of Sunrise passed. I tried to stop them, shouting, waving. They did wave back very friendly,, but that was of course not good enough.
Right: turn around - start walking back to Lakeside.
Halfway the Blue Skye jeep passed and stopped. Again a ride until their office,, which left a walk for me from one side of Lakeside to the other. Arriving at the office of Sunrise the girl told me that Rita indeed was back already.
I checked Zorba's restaurant, above the office, where we many times went for lunch, hoping Rita was waiting there for me, because we did plan to have lunch after her flight. Nobody.
Walking to H.E.: nobody.
Up to the room and there she was, fixing her hair (we had electricity).
To Mamma Mia finally (14:30) to have breakfast/lunch.
I was supposed to go to the children and have a conversation with Thak, but the morning took all my energy and we were running late.
At 19:30 we will get picked up by Shiva to go to the Radio station for our 'interview'. Both of us did not really want to go and Buddha did listen to our prayers. When we were waiting outside of H.E. at 19:30 a small boy came up to us and told us that the interview was cancelled.
Yes, that was good news.
That gave us more time space. First a quick check about my ticket. It is arranged now for the 16th of March, one day later. The arrival time at Athens and the departure to Heraklion is a bit tight: 1 1/2 hour. Knowing that it takes quite a long time to get the luggage from the Bahrain flight, I asked George to change Athens-Heraklion 1 or 2 hours later.
A quick email to mum, she was worried not hearing a long time from me. She was right, it is not like me to leave all of you such a long time without news and from Monday I can really update you every day or every second day.
Even with my writing I am updating backwards, (missing still 11 till 18 February).
(Now Friday 20 February) am writing this in my diary, sitting in New Orleans Cafe with a coffee, while Rita is chatting with Nabin, our guide to Bhaktapur in the beginning of our trip).
For our last evening a nice meal at Teatime.
Around 23:00 back in our room, where I had to do a quick packing for the 3 days Kathmandu.
Suba Rathri
Sanghita
Another beautiful warm day.
We went to H.E. for a coffee, Gomaya and many other guides I know from before are there. Nice to catch-up with them.
At 11:00 Rita left with Sun Rise Paragliding, I stayed with the volunteers who were going paragliding with Blue Skye. They gave me a lift to the starting point. I was there still in time to make pictures of Rita's take-off.
Not sure what was more scary: paragliding or 'flying' down the road in free gear! But I did enjoy the peace and the views. We had a clear view of the Himalayan Mountain range, but flying down on this bumpy 'road' with this speed made it impossible to make pictures.
Blue Skye dropped me off at their office, so I started to walk towards the landing zone.
After my walk for about already 25 minutes the jeep of Sunrise passed. I tried to stop them, shouting, waving. They did wave back very friendly,, but that was of course not good enough.
Right: turn around - start walking back to Lakeside.
Halfway the Blue Skye jeep passed and stopped. Again a ride until their office,, which left a walk for me from one side of Lakeside to the other. Arriving at the office of Sunrise the girl told me that Rita indeed was back already.
I checked Zorba's restaurant, above the office, where we many times went for lunch, hoping Rita was waiting there for me, because we did plan to have lunch after her flight. Nobody.
Walking to H.E.: nobody.
Up to the room and there she was, fixing her hair (we had electricity).
To Mamma Mia finally (14:30) to have breakfast/lunch.
I was supposed to go to the children and have a conversation with Thak, but the morning took all my energy and we were running late.
At 19:30 we will get picked up by Shiva to go to the Radio station for our 'interview'. Both of us did not really want to go and Buddha did listen to our prayers. When we were waiting outside of H.E. at 19:30 a small boy came up to us and told us that the interview was cancelled.
Yes, that was good news.
That gave us more time space. First a quick check about my ticket. It is arranged now for the 16th of March, one day later. The arrival time at Athens and the departure to Heraklion is a bit tight: 1 1/2 hour. Knowing that it takes quite a long time to get the luggage from the Bahrain flight, I asked George to change Athens-Heraklion 1 or 2 hours later.
A quick email to mum, she was worried not hearing a long time from me. She was right, it is not like me to leave all of you such a long time without news and from Monday I can really update you every day or every second day.
Even with my writing I am updating backwards, (missing still 11 till 18 February).
(Now Friday 20 February) am writing this in my diary, sitting in New Orleans Cafe with a coffee, while Rita is chatting with Nabin, our guide to Bhaktapur in the beginning of our trip).
For our last evening a nice meal at Teatime.
Around 23:00 back in our room, where I had to do a quick packing for the 3 days Kathmandu.
Suba Rathri
Sanghita
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