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Bhotang

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I had tried to write my introduction to this blog several times, but it wasn’t successful.   I will keep it short!   In a nutshell, I felt totally unenthused, disinterested and quite depressed on the road to Bhotang.   It is fair to say that I did not want to go, and the first two days did nothing to bolster my spirits.   Perhaps, in fact they only sought to worsen them.   There were many reasons for this, both locally driven and stemming from the UK, on a professional level and personally too. So that I can continue, I am just going to fast forward four days, through the darkness and into the light so to speak. Having been in Bhotang just 24 hours we lost power.   The power outage continued for some time, but despite the lack of light and obvious non-existent phone or laptop, I was beginning to really enjoy my homestay atmosphere.   My homestay ‘Mum’ had gone to Kathmandu to visit her youngest child on my second day and so my homestay ‘Dad’ and neighbours were responsible for