Bandipur

4-day Christmas trip to Bandipur, a 4 hours bus ride towards Pokhara. Hill-village with great mountain views - if only you could see through the fog!

Pashupatinath

One day trip to the temple area of Pashupatinath, featuring Helena, Jakob and Susanne.

Piaro Sukrabar II

The success of the first Piaro Sukrabar was repeated the next friday.

Piaro Sukrabar

"Piaro Sukrabar" means "Good Friday" or "Funny Friday" and it's the day where the school puts on a show by and for the children.

3 weeks with Susanne

Susanne came all the way from Stockholm to visit us! And she is 5 months pregnant! She says she feels totally recharged now.

Interview filming

Filming an interview for Spanish television.

First we had to wait for 3 hours, then we went somewhere else and waiting for one hour. Then a guy turns up with a tiny handheld camcorder, no lights and no microphone.

Ok, so we go home to Vicky's place and wait another couple of hours before this team of professional film photographers turn up with the whole stash and continues to record the whole thing with the highest amount of professionalism I've seen in this country to date.

Impressive.

Nepalese wedding

Anil is the son of the 'didi' (translates to 'older sister', all adult women are 'didis') who owns the house where we are renting our flat. His family decided that it was time for him to marry, so they found a suitable young woman among the family of some friends. After seeing her a couple of times Anil decided to accept and last Saturday they were unified.

Arranged marriages are still the most common practice, though maybe 20% of people in the city are now doing the "love marriage" thing :-)

That is to say, the terms "arranged" and "love" can be misleading as the festivities of a "love" marriage will still be arranged by the families and and the "arranged" marriage usually ends up with the involved parts loving each other, for some reason...

The festivities start with all the friends and relatives of the groom gathering at his house Saturday morning, receiving brunch and blessings, then embarking en-route to the bride's family's home lead by a brass band or similar.

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