Writing a blog post is easy, writing a book is very very difficult by comparison. My first book, An Englishman in Nepal, took a long time despite the fact that I had a lot of notes, diaries and previous blog… Read More ›
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Rules for education aid work?
Our newly published book, An Englishman In Nepal, gives some insights into the 10 years of our education aid work in Kathmandu. Having developed 200 schools and trained 2000 primary school teachers we arrived at 5 “rules” or truisms that… Read More ›
A painful lesson in the mountains of Nepal.
One of the chapters in my recently published book, An Englishman in Nepal, describes a number of my mountaineering experiences in the Himalaya. Some were exciting, some were funny, some were disasters, not all were successful. I could have just… Read More ›
How modern day Nepal was formed
If you’ve travelled to Nepal recently or are hoping to visit you will probably spend some time in Kathmandu and visit one or both of two other cities in the Valley. Most tourists do, but apart from marvelling at the… Read More ›
If Buddha was alive today ..
If Buddha was alive today he’d have a Nepalese passport, did you know that? Despite the occasional outrageous claim from an Indian politician, it is widely known that Siddhartha was born at Lumbini in Southern Nepal where there is a… Read More ›
Buddha Walks Into A Wine Bar .... 
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