Kathmandu Again!

We endured another uncomfortably hot 9 hr bus ride from Pokhara back to Kathmandu on the Mountain Overland bus (and met a nice couple from Canterbury who were sitting behind us). The traffic was horrendous getting in to Kathmandu (maybe rush hour?). Anyway, after retrieving our rucksacks from the back of the bus and negotiating with a greedy fat taxi driver, we got to our accommodation for the last 2 nights in Nepal.  The room was compact but comfortable and on the top floor so we had access to the roof terrace.
We didn't do much as arrived quite late on the Monday plus we couldn't be bothered to go far.  Also, the weather was on the turn as the monsoon starts in June so the rain was already making it's presence known.  We did check out an Irish Pub on the last night which was cool and the beer reasonably priced so we stayed for a couple!
Kathmandu is not so easy - very busy with lot's of shops selling tourist tat, it's pretty dirty/polluted and when it rains it gives you muddy streets with no pavement!  All this plus the whizzing around of scooters/bikes/cars to make walking around rather taxing on the nerves. However, it was all going well up until the morning we left..........
Rucksacks all packed, breakfast scoffed, taxi arranged to the airport - brilliant.  We left in plenty of time and with everything we owned.  That is until we got to the airport.  Daz went to get his transit bag out to put his rucksack in for the plane journey only to find it had somehow fallen out. We looked everywhere and even negotiated airport security to go back outside to look but found nothing. It was gone (probably fell out in the taxi/minibus).  Next up, Daz discovers the hotel room key smuggled in his trouser pocket! Being nice and typically British, we got somebody at the airport to call the hotel and arranged for them to pick it up at the Police desk.  The hotel denied seeing the transit bag in their minibus but then they would because they would have had to return it to us!!  We boarded the Malindo Air plane for the 4 1/2 hour flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
We arrived late at around 8.30pm Malaysian time and the airport was massive!  We had booked a hotel as our onward flight to Java, Indonesia was at 6.30am the following day.  After going through immigration, collecting our rucksacks (glad to say all in one piece still), we emerged to find a nice chap from the hotel waiting for us with one of those name cards (made us feel very important!). We got to the hotel in a small transit town near the airport which had a few local shops/restaurants, a Pizza Hut and a KFC!  We got some dinner, discovered that we couldn't buy any booze (to be expected in a mainly Muslim country!) and managed to bed down by midnight ready for the alarm clock at 3.30am! Again, everything went fine apart from being at the airport at 4am in the morning when we wanted to be in the land of nod.  We boarded the 6.30am flight to Yogjakarta, Java in Indonesia on the Thursday 1st June and in just over 2 hrs we landed to our next country!