Quick fling with India and the return home sweet home

 Well what can we say about India, it lives up to India:

• It's dirty: rubbish thrown everywhere, people going to the toilet erm... everywhere, a lot of pollution.
• It smells.
• People stare at you.
• People see money when they look at you.
• In Nepal, when you say you're from England people say "good country". In India a tuc tuc driver said "England bad. English crazy people. You all think you know everything. No one knows everything. I know everything about English".
• They have a really interesting history and some wonderfully impressive buildings.
• People seem to really believe in their religions.
• We met some lovely locals too, like Indian Jesus who was so nice about the fact the power went and we had to wait 3 hours for our meal and the hotel receptionist who spoke to us about his country, religion, his secret girlfriend, history, religion, music, while we waited around for our night train.
• It's incredibly cheap.
• It's full of extremes: 5 star hotels next to slums and poverty.
• It's definitely a challenge.

So, after 12 weeks in Nepal and 10 days in India, we decided to come home in time for Christmas. We still really want to travel but think we'll stick to shorter trips with higher budgets. So for now it's the end of that adventure but definitely a start to a new one. Got lots of work to do and we're very pleased to be back home. At the start of the trip, we didn't have much good to say about our homeland but now we do. We're far too snobby and love good food, hot showers, clean sheets, drinkable tap water...

Having said that, can't wait to get away somewhere again.

Well what did you expect, this is Kody and Hayley, two of the most indecisive people you'll ever meet. Ah well, at least we're both like it.

Goodbye Nepal

Can't believe it's been 2 and a half months already. It's been really good but there's been some bad too. I guess that's just life though. Met some great people who we'd like to see again in the future (we have food to sample and soap to make). We'll be leaving Nepal in just over a week and on to India. Hold on tight, I'm sure it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Some things about Nepal:

• Mountains: We can't get enough of them. No where else in the world has them quite like here. We definitely recommend trekking. What better way to meet the real locals and other travellers.
• The head wobble: Totally addictive. After a while of being here, you'll find yourself doing this. Instead o nodding or shaking your head, you wobble your head from side to side and answer the question. Or something like that, it's hard to tell sometimes.
• Cows and dogs: Lots of them in the streets.
• "Namaste": From the people who just want your money and then there's the genuine people who just want to meet you. 
• The kids: "How are you?", "Where are you from".
• Peddlers: Very persistent, even if you've walked past about 10 times that day and said no every time. We don't want to buy something just because it's cheap. And where would we put it all, our bags are already full of books haha. 
• Dal Bhat: How could I forget "Dal Bhat power, 24 hour". It's mostly pretty damn tasty and great if you're veggie.
• Milk tea: (Kody will stick to the mint). To make it Bondana style: 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup milk, spoon of sugar and some tea leaves, all boiled together. Nom!
• Bus journeys: The only real cheap way of getting from A to B Bistarai Bistarai (slowly, slowly) but it still often feels too fast for the roads you're on. Some of the scariest roads we've ever been on. People sat on your lap, in the aisle and on the roof. Oh and goats in the boot.