DAY 269 (Friday 27 April 2012)

Well today was a very quiet day in work as the majority of the people had gone a Valley Rim Walk which had been organised before my trek, naturally I declined the going on this walk.....well don’t you think 2 weeks pure walking is enough.....no, thought not, well I didn’t go and the upshot of not going on this walk was that I managed to knock of at lunch time, purely so that I can start packing some of my stuff up ready for our move on Monday...did I tell you I can’t wait......

Do you realise 6 weeks today I am on leave again.

DAY 268 (Thursday 26 April 2012)

First PT session since I got back but considering all the walking that I have done over the past 2 weeks I didn’t go out on the bike, I just stayed in the gym and it was a perfect opportunity to see if I had actually lost any weight whilst I am been doing all this walking and do you know what.......I did, almost half a stone.

This evening was fun, we had a games night, well I say games, it was one game in particular called CARROM board, (I think I have found my forte), I really enjoyed the game and what’s more it was a game of Officers v SNCOs and we won, yes us SNCOs actually won a game against the Officers, so the Cup is now firmly in our grasp and we will be doing our darnedest to hold on to at the next games night.

DAY 267 (Wednesday 25 April 2012)

Well first day back to work today and to be honest I am pleased that I didn’t have to come back to a load of crap.

DAY 266 (Tuesday 24 April 2012)

Still on leave.

DAY 265 (Monday 23 April 2012)

ST GEORGE’S DAY

I am still on leave today and to be honest there really isn’t much to say except that I have 1 week to push in this flat as we move into a house next Monday and I cannot wait.

DAY 264 (Sunday 22 April 2012)

Day 14 of Everest Trek – LUKLA to KATHMANDU

HAPPY 12^TH ANNIVERSARY TO ME & CHARLIE

Well we were up our usual time for this trip which was just as well as we had to go to the airstrip for 0700 hours to start the procedure of booking in, fortunately Kaji was with us by the time we got to the airport and he helped sort out our boarding pass and getting the hold baggage taken.

We eventually flew out of LUKLA a little late but not too late, however, we didn’t realise that when we got back to KATHMANDU that our Mov Det (movements people) were a little worried as they had kept checking with the Domestic Terminal if we were on a flight as our name didn’t seem to appear on the flight manifest, but never fear, we showed up at their building and they were happy to see us, but not as happy as I was to see them as it meant I was only about ¾ of an hour away from getting home.

We got home to sort ourselves out and get some washing in the machine (the basket was full) before we decided to head out for our lunch, well it is Sunday and more to the point it is our Anniversary, so we treated ourselves to a pizza at ROADHOUSE instead of going to LAZY GRINGO for Mexican fodder.  After we got back it was a case of chilling whilst the washing machine was doing it’s thing.....looks like I shall have a pile of ironing to keep me busy.

DAY 263 (Saturday 21 April 2012)

Day 13 of Everest Trek – Rest Day – LUKLA

After a fairly good night sleep (well I couldn’t get my legs comfortable) OK Charlie said I had no bother getting to sleep with the odd cough (something I picked up in DINGBOCHE thanks to some American) during the night, I was woken up by the helicopter starting its engine at about 0600 hours and not long after the helicopter had taken off the first flight into LUKLA had arrived.

Flights into LUKLA have to start really early due to the clouds as LUKLA is know as one of the most dangerous airports in the world, not because of where the airstrip is, but because of the hills that the plane has to navigate through to get to the airstrip. 

Coming into Lukla

We actually lazed around in our sleeping bags until 0730 hours before getting up for some breakfast (of which I had to give Charlie my sausages because they were hot dogs that had been fried.....yuk).  Once breakfast was done it was time to go for a slow mooch down the one road LUKLA had that lead out with some little shops and a few bars, cafes, restaurants on, would you believe that there is actually a STARBUCKS here in LUKLA!!!!!

We did happen to go into one place that had the most amazing chocolate cake......sorry it had to be done.  By the time that we got to the lodge after buy a few bits and pieces the clouds had come in so all planes had stopped flying into LUKLA (I just hope that we still get our flight on time tomorrow at 0830 hours as I am not sure if the backlog of people that didn’t get to fly today wil take priority or if they have to wait for a space to become available on a flight out.  We’ll just have to wait and see. 

Until then.....NAMASTE.