I've never known such difficulty with electricity as here in Nepal! During the 10 year civil war, which lasted until eight years ago, people moved into the Kathmandu Valley to be safer. This has led to a real strain on the infrastructure. There are too many people for the electricity grid. So they use load shedding where electricity is only available in each area for certain times each day. All the times in the grid below are when you don't have electricity. Our office is in group 4 and our accommodation is in group 5.
It means we have to be really clever with our work and maximise it when in each place. We often head to a nearby coffee house just to use the internet.
Some places have back up generators which kick in when there is no electricity. In our office they can only afford a small amount of petrol for the generator, so normally there is no generator! So from midday Wednesday to 4pm Friday, you got it, no electricity!
Our accommodation got significantly better in the last week, as they got back up proper, so in the no electricity times, we have one light in the room and one plug socket for charging stuff. We don't need the candles no more!!
We don't know we're born in the UK sometimes!
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