T-21 days & counting....

It takes a lot of work to put your life on hold for 4 months. And I'm starting to drown in lists again - this is all starting to sound very familiar!

To add to my worries of not getting everything sorted in time, it appears that one can no longer get a simple extension to a tourist visa on arrival in Indonesia. Oh no, that would be much too straightforward. Instead we have had to collate a small file on our worthy financial and employment status to present to the embassy and hopefully qualify for an extended visa. I don't mind having to prove my visiting status, after all, it's what we put people through to visit the UK (worse probably) but having to submit passports less than 3 weeks before we depart... I feel the need for a beta blocker comin on!

Another slight glitch is how we get from Bangkok to Kathmandu, economically in early April? Direct flights from Colombo or even one or two stop flights via India, have proved evasive to say the least. It seems that you need to fly from a major hub (ie; Singapore or Bangkok or Heathrow!) to get a direct flight to Kathmandu (KTM). I'm guessing there's not a huge demand for Colombo to KTM. With it being Nepalese New year i think we may have to pay a big premium. Ho hum. On the up side, we may have got ourselves a little apartment to use as a base in KTM. Keep you posted, but big up to Parina :oD