The morning after the night before, where I took up the role of The Tav, dancing to a Nepalese band in an Irish bar, playing Nepalese or Indian songs. Yes the head may hurt a little, but I was up at 5.30 and I found the keys !! Somehow they were in my jeans that I had not worn. Don’t ask! anyway, that wipes the 1 mark from our score. So we are still 3-0 up.
Today’s riding was a bit more technical and after our second petrol stop, Deadly Dom managed to hit a rock which turned him through 90 degrees whereupon he shot across the road and buried the bike into a deep drainage channel. The rear wheel was just sitting upright slowly turning. Luckily no injuries. But 4-0 to the Brits.
An early stop for lunch of Dal Bhat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal_bhat) which we were soon to get used to, set us up for the afternoon ride.
The ride was pretty much awesome, this had everything including a “washed out bridge” which had a bus full of passengers, in the end, a JCB levelled some of the sides of the bank and then pulled the bus through the water. After which a 4×4 got stuck and had to be pulled out.
Many motorcycles crossed, many stopped half way and one just fell over!It was now our turn and apart from a few feet in the water, we all got through safely. I managed to do it without putting a foot down. However a few minutes later I hit a rock in a large mud puddle, this turned me through 90 degrees and also knocked me out of gear. Stuck in the middle of mud puddle my feet went down and uhrrrr not nice.
This is the easy bits …. the drop to the edge of the right ranges from about 50-foot sheer drop to maybe 200 feet.
We powered on through for another hour or so and arrived at our hotel. Well that’s being kind, all my room was missing was the cross above the bed and it was Monks quarters. I even had cold and cold running water !! And the light was from solar power.
Apparently, all electricity was off and we had to wait 15 minutes (but we did have free wi fi! ) … so we decided it was beer o clock and settled down to tell the stories of the day. As we had no hot water we thought we would go to the hot springs however one look at it and it appeared everyone else had the same idea, so don’t get me wrong I don’t mind the odd bit of communal bathing but in a jacuzzi with champagne and this was not one of those moments, so we decided another beer was a better bet.
MoMo and noodle soup was again for dinner and a retire to bed at a nice and respectable 10 pm out like a light…
