Our first weekend in Kathmandu coincided with holi, one of the most colourful Hindu festivals where people paint their faces then cover themselves, and anyone in their path with eye-poppingly bright coloured powders and pelt each other with water bombs. If you’re ‘playing’ holi you are pretty much guaranteed to be covered from head to toe. And if you’re not ‘playing’, you’re also pretty much guaranteed to get a good pasting!
So, as seems to be the pattern so far on our trip when something big is supposed to be happening, Bella ends up falling ill. This time a mystery migraine and sickness bug meant that Andy was sent on a mercy mission to find a pharmacy – bearing in mind this is like trying to find a chemist open on Christmas day – all the while dodging renegade dye bombers perched like snipers on the surrounding rooftops. Luckily for Bella (who was by this time making her own rather colourful creations in the bathroom) Andy’s mission was successful and after swallowing two big yellow pills and one huge brown horse tranquiliser, the sickness appeared to be under control.
oh no bella what a nightmare, you would have loved holi!
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