Hotel Seagull Chittagong City

The few days we have here in Bangladesh have been incredibly encouraging as far as the work of God in this dark corner. Bangladesh is the size of Iowa but has 163,000,000 people--the most densely populated country in the world with 2900 people per square mile. (Iowa has 52.7; Illinois has 232). More than 86% of these people are Muslim, 9% are Hindu and the remaining less than 4% is Buddhist, animist, and all Christian religions.<br><br>The ABWE mission has a program ...

... elevation of the green. it's up on a hill. a lucky chip put me in a good position for par but sadly the putt sailed past the hole. some of these greens are really really fast. the caddy did warn me saying fast green sar, fast green sar, over and over but i screwed up anyway. dhooor! you have to pay attention to these caddies because they are all single digit handicap golfers. 3-on and 2-putt for bogie. hole number 4: 490-yard par 5 it's a long and narrow fairway with ...

... only so many roads out there in the hills and so if you go back and forth enough times you are bound to get where you want to go simply by a process of elimination, but by then it was almost sunset and all i could do was check in to the lodge and look out wistfully at the golf course. it was laced with the last rays of sunlight. there was a lone golfer out there enjoying the cool winter sunset and all of my ...

... i walked around and asked anyone wearing a coat and a badge but no one seemed to know that gmg airlines even existed. when the gate did open, it turned out that i was the only passenger on flight z5072 from bkk-cgp on dec 16, 2006. it was weird flying all alone on big md-82 aircraft. you would think that with one customer and six flight attendants the customer would get pretty good service but you would be wrong. there is an hrm management theory at work here ...

... for 18. Clarke and Symonds tried steadying the ship, but Symonds was trapped on the back foot for a duck. Ponting came and went the same way, whilst Clarke pushed the ball around, until he to lost his wicket. It was now up to Hussey and Hogg to bring us home, which Hogg was unable to help. It was getting edgy. For what was meant to be a simple target, they were making hard work of it. Lee came in to join Hussey, and Hussey nearly ran himself out. The Bangers ...

... The only ones to take any action over the time we've been here were the green-shirt bashers. There are the guards with the stripey shirts and black berets, the green shirt bashers, RAB with black bandanas and black shirts on motorbikes (looking suspiciously like CHiPs), the army fatigue guys in either green, brown and beige with red berets with red feathers or the helmet heads with orange and black fatigues or the blue, turquoise and beige fatigues. All of them carry ...

ONE CHALET, NO POTATOES An auspicious opportunity has arisen.  Well, we did tell you that seven years of good fortune has just begun.  We have a spare ticket available for the All Tomorrow's Parties festival at Camber Sanders in East Sussex, 26-28 March.  For those not in the know, ATP is the finest music festival, bar none.  You stay in a Pontins' chalet with a bed, a bathroom, a kitchen, Mr &amp; Mrs R and everyone's favourite goat-herder, Mr Prickett.  The music?  Shellac, Mogwai ...

Everything has been as easy as pie for the last few days.  England gave Bangladesh a good seeing to on the cricket pitch.  And Bangladeshi hospitality has continued unabated.   The affable Mr Moeiz, a friend of Tonmoy who we met in Dhaka, met us on our second day in Chittagong.  He checked us out of our hotel, packed our bags into his car (wet washing and all) and installed us in his own house.   Over the last 8 days, as ...

Days 8-12:  Cricket.  People are madder for cricket than Soft Mick around these parts.  Despite being on a losing streak akin to Carlisle United's form this season - played 25, lost 24, drew 1 - enthusiasm is endemic among the natives, much as it is in Cumbria.  Mr R's statto credentials have been given a stern seeing to.  "Who were England's opening bowlers in 1992 World Cup Final?" one local enquired.  Bugger knows, we responded.  "Derek Pringle &amp; Angus ...