It took me three passes to find the shop where we had ordered T-shirts on Friday (They had embroidered patterns and had to be stitched onto the right sized shirts). The Thamel is three long streets in parallel with little alleys running between them. Like all of Nepal (that I know of), only significant streets have names and there is no street numbering. Stores list their neighbourhood and maybe a nearby intersection rather than an address.
On Friday I took a picture and used my phone's GPS to "pin" the shop on a map. Because the streets are narrow with high buildings, I should have walked up and down the street to get a better GPS fix. So today I arrived at the pinned spot on my map and...no shop to match my picture. Fortunately I remembered it was on the west side of one of the long streets, so I walked methodically up one street and down the next until I found it. Turns out the pin on my map was about 300 ft south of the actual store.
What's missing from this picture is the regular stream of taxis, minivans, motorcycles and rickshaws weaving around the pedestrian traffic. The street traffic here requires a whole entry of it's own so I'll post that later.
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