Author Archives: katecrawley

Essentially, do not go for a walk mid or directly after a monsoon. Also if a Nepali says there is a path – there is a path, regardless of jungle, river, cliff, volcano, etc.  This week has been prime Nepali style organisation. We knew Tiij festival was on Monday meaning no school and so weContinue reading “08/09: Gnarly Leeches”

(Heads up – blog posts will be infrequent and unreliable due to Nepal’s distinct lack of 3G and you can forget about the vlogs. I’ll add photos when I can.) We left Kathmandu on Saturday morning and enjoyed a 14 hour *real-life-mario-kart* jeep journey. There’s nothing quite like the adrenaline rush of being woken upContinue reading “30/08: Week One at Neta, Rajbara”

19.08.19 At six this morning local time I arrived at Kathmandu airport with my heavily crammed backpack of stickers, kazoos, balloons and a years supply of diarrhoea relief (note my singular rucksack is actually smaller than Francesca’s when she did Project and definitely smaller than Sam’s multiple cases of books even though they were onlyContinue reading “My gap yaah begins”