‘I am on holiday with my sister in Mallorca. We are on a whistlestop tour of this beautiful island. We love what we have seen and are happy to be Humans of Mallorca for a week. From what we have seen we know this will not be our only visit here. We have loved Alcudia, Pollensa, Palma and Soller. We have more places to visit before we go home. We have travelled the island by bus and seen the changing landscape and vibrancy of the city.
We are also Humans of the UK as a result of decisions made in 2004 by Tony Blair and the Labour government. He changed the rules so that Gurkhas who retired after 1997 would be allowed to settle in the UK, 1997 being the date when the Gurkha Brigade headquarters moved from Hong Kong to Britain.
My husband is a Gurkha, and we arrived in the UK as soon as we could after the law was changed. My sister trained to be a nurse after arrival in the UK and continues to work at Harefield Hospital. I am a scientific researcher, and I teach. We are fortunate to have a Gurkha community in the UK and we meet often. My children have grown into the English way of life and can understand our language but don’t speak it.
We go home, when we can, and take the 16-hour trip back to Nepal to visit family and friends. We are Humans of the World and know what it is like to leave our birthplace and traditions.
The ability to travel and have a snapshot of another place in the universe is our great pleasure. We love what we have seen of Mallorca so far. In Nepal, UK and Mallorca we are all part of the huge melting pot of humanity.’
