Re: A Short Story

Posted by Greg 'Stretch' Williams on Jul 27, 2012; 9:22am
URL: http://sundownersadventures.385.s1.nabble.com/A-Short-Story-tp5579734p5706486.html

A great description Vicar. Allow me to add something to the early component.

The Trathens coach was down at Birganj because it was too long to make some of the turns on the road up to Kathmandu. We had come up the road with the few (12, I think) punters that had come out from London with us (that was my training trip) in a local Tata that Silver hired for the job. He needed 2 Tata's to take everybody down to Birganj, but then he and Dave decided that one Tata ride was enough for them and they booked tickets on the local flight down from Kathmandu. I couldn't afford that so I get sole responsibility for 51 first timers to India.

The trip down was much as Vicar described it and we get to the Birganj Hilton and I get all the punters into their rooms to various responses of shock and concern (are all the hotels going to be like this??) when I get called to the desk. There is a phone call from Kathmandu. It's Silver - he and Dave are still there. The flight was cancelled - fog I think, and they won't be able to get to Birganj until the next day.

So 51 punters spent their second day on the road wandering about beautiful downtown Birganj - and no-one complained. When Silver and Dave showed up later that afternoon, I told them that they were in for a great trip. I was sorry I had to leave it in Delhi and fly back to London, but my life would have been completely different if I had been on board the Super Roo as it passed Kit Carr heading East between Heidelberg and Munich...but's that another story.