Dawa meets us at the airport with white garlands and ‘namaste’ handshakes and smiles He and the driver take our bags and beep the horn a lot out to take us to Thamel. Past shops of spices and pashminas we bounce along potholed roads Families sit over tin cans on fire on the street side […]
Kathmandu. One of those mysterious maybe made up places like Timbuktu or Casablanca or Bora Bora that we know about but no one you know has been. Capital of Nepal, The gateway to the Himalaya, the home of Mount Everest (Sagamarta – Mother of Universe to give it its Nepali name), key stopping point on […]
Today, Tuesday 30th January 2018 me and my girlfriend life team mate partner Helen fly to Kathmandu, Nepal. This marks the start of a six month journey taking in ten countries, fifteen flights, some boats, trains, rickshaws, tuk-tuks, and more, and, plenty of walking – not least as we begin with a two week trek […]
Paul Bateson is a Drama teacher, writer and theatre producer: using arts and culture as a way to improve wellbeing and affect social change is at the heart of his work. Paul also pays close attention his own mental health and the mental health of others. For a while now in my own journey […]
Currently reading and enjoying ‘The Happy Kitchen’; I was drawn to a tweet on World Poetry Day, by Rachel Kelly the author, in which she shared a page from her book featuring an extract from ‘The Darkling Thrush’ by Thomas Hardy. In the tweet Rachel said ‘the healing power of nature is a perfect companion […]
