07 December 06 - 15:28She said yes!!!

Lucky me, I got a yes to my proposal to marry Fie.  I "did it" on a houseboat in the backwaters of peaceful Kerela.  India is a hard place to find the peace and quiet for a marriage proposal - believe me, this was the quietest and best place for thousands of miles!

I've wanted to propose for very many months now, it kept welling up in me and I wanted to burst out "marry meeeeeeee" quite a few times, whether it was on the bike or lazing around in Goa.  The traditionalist in me wanted to do it properly.  So I did, on my knees and everthing except the rose in the mouth (no roses in Kerala).

We have finally made it to Nepal and are in the beautiful Chitwan National Park - "one of the most incredible reserves in Asia" so the book reads.  Off for an misty early morning canoe ride followed up by a jungle trek, then elephant safari in the afternoon, then tomorrow we get to wash some baby elephants!  Then a short ride to Kathmandu to arrange flights for us and the bike to Thailand.  Eight days from now we will be in Bangkok!

I have to admit it's quite a relief to be in another country, in the last few days I felt India wearing us down a bit - probably due to the fact that we were just trying to cover many kilometers to get out of India before our visa ran out.  Nepal's hotels feel cleaner and quite a lot less chaotic than the holes we had found in our last days in India.  It's a shame that we only have 9 days here.  It's a bit nippy at night and will get cooler as we ride towards Kathmandu - I cant tell you how much I am looking foward to the culinary delights that await us there.

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