Double Dorje Restaurant

A great place to eat ...

"Run by Tibetans Double Dorje Restaurant is popular with backpackers and the local dharma crowd. They offer Western food and Tibetan special food, sometimes it might take more to bring the food. It is popular for butter tea and roasted barley meal."

http://www.trekking-world.com/double-dorje-restaurant

Happy Valley Guest House Kathmandu

Maybe we'll go there again ...

Reviews:

"This is a great place to stay. It is quiet, clean and safe. The location is perfect -- in a Tibetan neighborhood just a couple of blocks from the Stupa. Staying at the guest house gives you an opportunity to visit the Stupa at dusk when the neighborhood comes alive, after the tourist buses have gone back to Katmandu."


http://www.travelpod.com/hotel/Happy_Valley_Guest_House-Kathmandu.html


http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g293890-d316850-r4717826-The_Valley_Guesthouse-Kathmandu.html

Telling Stories

"“No one has ever been angry at another human being—we're only angry at our story of them.”—Byron Katie"

http://dayamati.blogspot.com/2009/02/telling-stories-about-telling-stories.html

"What would it be like to go through a day without telling any stories? What would it be like just to see sights, hear sounds, smell odors, taste tastes and feel corporeal sensations and stop there, without giving any account of them? What would it be like to hear the stories that others tell and simply observe them, without telling stories about why others tell the stories they tell? It might be interesting to experiment with living a day, or even a few hours of a day, in a narrative-free state of simple observance of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and bodily sensations. It might be interesting to cultivate a habit of catching oneself in the act of telling a story and then to refuse to finish telling the story."

Google Latitude - See where your friends are

"With Google Latitude, you can:

* See where your friends are and what they are up to
* Quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call
* Maintain complete control over your privacy"

http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html

Britain from Above - The Lights of Britain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/visualisations/constellations.shtml