Happy New Year.
Nepal has now added a dearth of bank notes to the other recent shortages - petrol, cooking gas etc - that we've had to work around. I went to four ATM machines in central Kathmandu today to try to withdraw cash before finding one that would allow me to extract local currency to a value that was worth more than a few pounds. And my Standard Chartered Bank card was cancelled in the process, presumably because of my temerity in persisting.
The things one takes for granted...
