I feel a bit miserable for having whinged about the weather in our last blog - the truth is, we are healthy, happy and feel well looked after. We have been feeling pretty remote recently with difficult times for the family at home, plus groups of friends getting together reminding us just how far away we are - we're thinking of you all.

In the last week there has been a real change in the weather - the damp and rain that seems to have been here for months have lifted and the air has cleared, reminding us just what an awesome place we live in.



We went away for a night last weekend, taking a group out for a two day trek in the hills close to Pokhara. It turned out to be a really good time with everyone from the very mixed group coming back happy and not too sore. We had our concerns on route though as the weather was unsettled, the path was very slippery in places and the leaches were ferocious - we tried a combination of dettol, deet, salt and tobacco to ward them off but we all got bitten at least once.








A Hindu festival was just ending as we got a bus back from the end of the trail and a lot of people were wanting to get back to Pokhara. We piled on the roof thinking that we were lucky to fit on, before they proceeded to cram another 50 or people bodies on and around us. Fortunately it was a fairly short journey on a very slow road, but we were delighted to get off in one piece.


We had a great time yesterday afternoon, somehow lining various bits of technology to hold a group telephone call with the INF conference taking place in the UK.
It was great to feel part of the bigger INF family and incredible to think that it was only at the same conference last year that we were meeting a lot of INF characters for the first time and learning more about the organisation - feels like a life time ago!