Our last day in Kathmandu

After breakfast we wandered down to Thamil district which is a busy market street. In some ways we had seen it all before but in other ways the narrow busy streets offered us further insights into the Nepalese way of life. Shopkeepers swept the dust from their frontages (I thought little vacuum cleaners which removed the dust rather than the brooms that simply rearranged it could be quite useful).  Many rickshaw drivers offered us a ride but our aim was to walk through the traffic mayhem. We gave up trying to follow the Lonely Planet walk but found some temples and little squares by ourselves. Little buildings squashed between others had fallen down and were partially being rebuilt.  We came to busy streets and suddenly market shops were replaced by the shops we know. Glass windows and doors to keep out the dust.  We stopped at the garden of dreams for lunch and wiled away a couple of hours eating tempura and drinking copious quantities of tea. As we watched squirrels played and pigeons strutted around.  Then we investigated the top two floors of the  mall ("stressed,  depressed but well dressed" was a shops logo) and then wandered around a near by pond which is in need of some love and attention. It appears as though this could be where rain water is piped to during the monsoons.

Back at the hotel we are thinking of packing but actually we are both lying on our beds not doing a lot.