Jen to the top

Wow, this last month has been action packed and I have to revert back to end of March to catch up.  Scandi tour of Kathmandu Anki and I at Boudha stupa I had the pleasure of visits from both my cousin Ann Kristin from Oslo and my dear friend Milka and her family from France. Then Dan came from the UK and now Anna from the UK is here, she is although here working but still. I am loving it!   After the obligatory sight seeing around Kathmandu, Ann Kristin and I went together with Anamika from Childreach Nepal to volunteer at their Meera Centre, a centre for Early Childhood Development outside Panauti, around 40km east of Kathmandu. Ann Kristin enjoyed the day shift with the children supporting the teacher as she is also a kindergarten teacher and I had the great job to paint the centre at night and refresh the classrooms in a bright happy green colour. Anki playing with the kids The painter woman   We spent the nights sleeping on the classroom floor which

Trekking in Annapurna is amazing, everyone who has ever been knows that. It is my 3rd time back, where the last time actually only was a couple of weeks ago with my cousin Anki and my friend Milka and her family. We did a short-ish trek for 2 days and had a great time. Before crossing a suspension bridge This time my friend Dan is here and he also wanted to see what all this noise about trekking in Nepal is all about, and yes, I have been preaching to everyone about it and now it is time to show off. We started yesterday with a route I did 2 years ago, from Nayapol to Ghandruk. Nayapol is at 1,040m and Ghandruk at 1,960m, so it is a big climb up never ending steps, mixed up with a couple of roads and suspension bridges. We were quite happy to reach Gandruk, got company on the last bit from a Hungarian guy, Marton, who had decided to trek to Annapurna Base Camp. A trek that takes 9 days they say, he had only a week. I tried to advise him on another route that he could quite nic