Life in the land of the pure, season 2024-25, episide 8: The older couple
Hey, they are older ! Heather and Ruth arrived on 24 December, giving me about a day and a half after Tasha & harrison departed. 24 December, why is that date familiar? We walked around the US embassy compound and had an embassy expert give us a birding tour-/over 100 species have been discovered on just embassy property alone! We went out for kebab at the famous New Kabul restaurant (following the young couple’s footsteps). Of course rug shopping … and we did buy some … My favorite ice cream joint in Pakistan. We walked around the diplomatic zone, stopping to visit the German embassy’s welcome bear, and explored the embassy itself. Visited a wildlife rehabilitation center. The volunteers try to heal injured and confined animals so they can be reintroduced to their native habitants. Two Saturday lunches in a row at the Dome restaurant led to many staff whisperings of “Mr Howard of US embas...