Spent months in the firing line. Army machine gunners bowling over the rioters outside the Yak & Yeti while we lived on peas and potatos three times a day inside. More rioters tried to set fire to the company car with me and the driver still in it, we had to fight our way out and seek refuge in a police post resembling the Alamo. Typhoid, cholera and bilharzia a routine daily risk. 14 hour shifts flying through from Kathmandu to Bombay overnight and back with two flight crew changes; they stay in the Hyatt Regency of course, we had four hours free at Delhi on the return, but no hotel - stretch out on the cabin floor until the hosties turn up and kick you in the ribs. Allowances came to two grand a month or twenty quid a day. Rioters are no problem, the guys up there now are at risk from Maoist guerrillas who think nothing of knocking off the army forty or fifty at a time. They may not be in the valley yet, but its just a matter of time.
War stories or not, wake up and smell the roses fellows, Auckland will be easy money...
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Through difficulties to the cinema