Omar Khayyam in the Gardens of Dreams, Kathmandu

Kathmandu Goodness 2012

What do you do when you get bored in Sudan? You pack your weekend rucksack, you grab your Canon and head to Kathmandu and spend the next few days basking in the pure goodness of the glowing sun, eat loads of egg pokhara, momo dumplings, curry and drink delicious beer. Alongside that, you must breathe in the spiritual wonders surrounding you and be capitivated by the multitude of colours of prayer flags fluttering around, the sound Buddhist chants and the smells of burning incense. You must do the above in solitude and be amazed at how little you missed frivolity and the daily conversations of routine life.

Khartoum Times May 2012

Writing

José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist recalled [of his grandfather who suffered a stroke and was taken to Lisbon for treatment], "He went into the yard of his house, where there were a few trees, fig trees, olive trees. And he went one by one, embracing the trees and crying, saying good-bye to them because he knew he would not return. To see this, to live this, if that doesn't mark you for the rest of your life," Saramago said, "you have no feeling."

Rocking

Courtesy of LB. Soaking in the view on Eagle Shit Rock.