Did you know they fix shopping trolleys/carts?

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At breakfast today in Kathmandu, Nepal, we sat with an English lad and his German partner. They lived in Perth, Western Australia, for a year. The boy had a job fixing shopping trolleys. I’m surprised that they even fix the carts but it seems they do. We’ve really been just filling in time until we catch our plane home tomorrow evening. We've just about run out of cash and don't really want to start using our credit cards so it's walking and looking now. Today we went for a walk and found ourselves in a sort of marketplace. There were all sorts of herbs, spices, vegetables and fruit on sale but I didn’t know the names of a lot of them especially the spices. It’s no use asking for the names as most of the sellers only know the Nepali word for their products. But the displays were incredibly colourful. The goods are laid out very attractively and would be a cook’s paradise if you were living in the country. You don’t want to know about all the butcher shops which were simply open shop-fronts. Maybe I’ll write about them another time. On our walk, two girls stopped us to ask for directions. They were from Adelaide in South Australia and will be doing a four-day trek from tomorrow. With the aid of Vince’s phone, we were able to help them find their way to the Garden of Peace which we visited earlier in our stay. Edit: I forgot to say the middle top photo is all sorts of dried fish.