A letter looking for someone · Someone I met travelling
To the backpacker with the spare sweater · Pokhara, March 2015
Sent Oct 25, 2026
- Where & when
- Lakeside Backpackers Hostel · Pokhara · Nepal 2015 dorm bunk by the window
- About them then
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A tall backpacker who shared my dorm for two nights, late twenties maybe, with a soft European accent. When I stumbled in off the night bus with a fever and nothing warm to wear, you lent me a sweater and, the next morning, walked me through the rain to the clinic and waited until I was seen.
- Who I was then
- The shivering girl in the borrowed sweater, travelling alone with a green rucksack and a very bad cold.
- Why I'm writing
- To say thank you · Just hoping my words reach them
It was March and Pokhara was wetter and colder than anyone had warned me. I had been travelling for six weeks and had never felt so far from home. You did not ask a single question. You handed me the sweater, told me to keep it, and the next day made sure I got to a doctor. I have thought about that small kindness for more than ten years and I would like to say it properly.
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