Why 'the Armchair Loafers?'

When we were in Kathmandu we were asked why we are called 'the armchair loafers' and I explained that we are all a bit lazy at heart, and without proper motivation we are all happy to loaf around all day. Yesterday was a case in point - with great plans for a motorbike ride into the desert, we instead spent ages drinking coffee, had a wander around a few shops (and haggled over the price of wall hangings!) and then spent the afternoon and evening drinking beer on the rooftop of our hotel!  So we've instead booked motorbikes for today, and we'll see how that goes!

The person asking us about our team name in Kathmandu was an American producer of a new travel documentary called 'Seven Journeys'. We have no idea if they were a real film crew or not because they were using Canon EOS cameras to film things which they said can do broadcast quality video, but it seemed a bit strange that they didn't have 'proper' film cameras.  They did seem to have a big group of people involved and were following two 'tourists' doing bizarre travel activities (like training with the gurkhas in the jungle!).  They loved the idea of the rickshaw run so interviewed me on camera - they also wanted to get their 'tourist' to drive around Kathmandu in the rickshaw, but on the afternoon an American rickshaw team arrived at the hotel so we got dumped! So we may or may not end up in a travel documentary (though I'm not holding my breath!)