Category: Bangladesh 2009-12

After some wonderful adventures in Tea Land, I returned to Dhaka to get down to the business of becoming an expat. Step one: find a flat!

I’ll begin this entry with a well-known travel fact: switched-on travellers don’t arrive in small towns after midnight.  Only disorganised risk-takers do it; those who don’t mind bedding down for the night in, say, a petrol station.  After meeting such a fate in Nepal, I’d said to myself, “Never again.”  But then, three years later, […]

Hello from Bangladesh I’ve started this blog so that I can tell you the best (and worst) bits about my extended stay in Bangladesh.  After two weeks of travelling and a spot of freelancing, I’ll start a six month internship at The Daily Star, an English language daily national newspaper based in Dhaka. Let’s get […]