Okay - well had a pretty good week up to yet - Have decided i'm going to go trekking everyday till we leave and managed to do Mon / Weds and today and plan to go again tomorrow (only didn;t go Tues cos i was sick in the morning from too many Nepaliv green beans the night b4!) - this basically involves getting up at 5am and walking 40-50 Min's up a very large and steep hill in our village on 'goat paths' through the forest / jungle!! My fitness is improving slightly due to all the manual labour I'm doing during the day but I'm still needing to take rest - hopefully after a couple of weeks I'll be running up there!!!

Its pretty cool though as one of the walks we do is up to a hotel on the top of the 'mountain' and they do milk coffee in MUGS!!! Mugs are very hard to come by in Nepal so its a great incentive to get me up the hill!!

Was quite scared yesterday though as me and miller walked up part the way on our own (usually there's a few of us) - it was 5am so still pitch black and neither of us had a torch!! Worst of all 3 people were attacked the morning before in the next town by a leopard and my friend Colms dog was also attacked by a wild cat the night b4 - we both had sticks for protection and i have reinvented my 'rape alarm' as a tiger alarm - not sure it would work but i certainly felt a little safer with it!!

Trying to upload some photos but having problems again so you might have to wait until next time....................