Having been replenished with badly needed funds from home I appear to have gone on an eating spree. The letter continues: 'The street down from our hotel is full of good eating places and thanks to the money you sent me I've been trying out lovely Chinese and Tibetan foods - chicken with cashew nuts, buffalo and curd, Kothays (things in batter) etc! Not the least attraction is KC's cake and pie shop! They serve such huge portions of mouthmelting creations and their coffee is lovely, so we drink gallons as there wasn't much on the trip.']
FRIDAY 15TH DECEMBER, 1976
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KC's great restaurant, Thamel, Kathmandu, 1976
"No one could lie in because conditioned to wakening at crack of dawn! Had lovely hot shower. Pam and me went to KC's for breakfast - toast and coffee! Then met Jan at bank and so went back for more toast and coffee. Joined people lazing on hotel balcony (ie concrete terrace where spread washing).
Not long before decided to try a KC cake - huge helpings, everything from fruit salad pie to sponge cake! Then went in search of Yeti Travels for mail (already heard tickets not arrived from London).
Went via maze of backstreets - fruit sellers, clothes, bicycles galore, small squares, mangy dogs, smell and filth, buffalo roaming lanes; tallish brick houses with old dark carved wooden window frames and doors.
Eventually onto broad main streets and got mail - heard money come through, so relief that can live again! Post Office with Jan - race in queue for stamps.
Gathered at hotel to discuss what giving Geoff [driver] and to order for group farewell meal.
Had meal in Star Hotel - fruit juice, steak (cold) veg (few) cake (revolting) tea (sweet)! Apart from disappointing meal, speeches by Rob and Geoff and Fred were funny and Rob told wide-mouth frog joke (promised since Florence, Mich. Angelo campsite!) Good atmosphere to end evening - Neva's last night."
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