To Post or Not to Post?

Having plenty of time to sit and relax in the sun was quite conducive to postcard writing. 24 hours earlier we had been wondering when we were going to have time to write them, now we had the perfect opportunity.

And so we got writing. We stopped when our paws started to ache and we'd run out of original things to stay. We then asked each other if either of us had spotted a postbox anywhere. We didn't think we had, so we set off on a post box search.

Yorkie not only found a post box, he found the post office, although it was shut at the time. It was tucked away on it's own up a back street and wasn't exactly the most modern building in town - clearly it wasn't catering for the tourists.


Yorkie climbed up the box to see if there were any signs of it having been used recently. It had rather an air of dereliction about it, but there again, a box with an opening is all that is required: a post box doesn't need to be a hi-tec gleaming receptacle to be functional.

And so we faced the dilemma of, to post or not to post. Not only was there the question of whether the cards would eventually make it home, but also whether it would be quicker to take them back to Kathmandu to post, even though we weren't returning for another 6 days.

What would you have done? As for us, we're sorry to say we were influenced by looks (we normally try not to be) and we took the cards back to Kathmandu to post. In retrospect we should have posted half in Namche and half in Kathmandu and then conducted a poll of arrival times.

Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx