Stay Fit
May 8th, 2008 by Isak Ladegård
It’s hard to stay fit when travelling around. The gym is far away and the delicious-but-unhealthy food stalls are just ‘round the corner. The solution is to think different.
Tales From Nepal
May 8th, 2008 by Isak Ladegård
Yes, the great temples of Nepal are great memories. But small, crazy moments can be equally memorable.
At this rooftop, in Nepal, I had to hang on for two long hours. The stomach of the bus was packed and the roof was full of people and caged chickens, and we all went down one of the heavily unsteady and rocky roads of the Nepali north.
The bus kept bouncing up and down, for each turn we were hanging on for our lives and I could feel half a dozen of bruises developing as the driver continued to ignore the BREAK and the BIG HOLES IN THE ROAD. Then, God saw my misery and decided to punish me further, rain on that non-believer! he said, perhaps, as big and hard drops of rain started to bombard us.
The driver ignores the thunderstorms and it seems like he tries to win over the weather, no-one or nothing stops me from beating my record!, he thinks, perhaps. Then a little boy climbs up to us, we are bouncing like ever before and our bruises are multiplying, water is slapping our faces and now we have to reach for ticket-money, and then the sky is covered by lightning, we are laughing and crying and we’re all in deep, deep pain.
A bus ride in Nepal is never just a bus ride.