Hotel Tower Inn International Ltd. Chittagong City

... earth that could negotiate the mountainous terrain of this course), look right over the creek and the bridge and way out there in the mist and the woods is a green backed by dense jungle and fronted by bunkers on both sides. it is a right angle dogleg. i hit the 4-iron and landed right in front of the wavy-gravy green. 3-on and 3-putt for double bogie. it's a tough green. on the uphill parts you need guts to hit the ball hard enough to climb up to the hole. it took me three ...

... about 200 km north of chittagong, but by weird coincidence he was in chittagong at that time for a meeting with the mayor of chittagong. wow! after the meeting he met me for lunch at a restaurant called pitstop. behrouze handed me his business card. it said that he was the chairman of the board of the largest tea company in bangladesh. wow again! we chatted about the good old days and also about poverty and ...

... bus service is not a service for passengers. there is no shuttle service for passengers. the smartly dressed airport employees stared at me in disbelief as if i were an alien from space and i may well have been one. i did get to the terminal eventually and right on time too. i was told to check in at 2:30pm for my flight to chittagong on gmg airlines and i arrived at the check-in counter at 2:37pm. wow, talk about punctual. of course the counter was not open yet. i ...

... lost, and Thommo's pitch report. As Bangers had won the toss, they did the usual and decided to bat. The openers took off, and after two overs, 19 was on the board. Lee and Bracken then started to slow things down with a couple of wickets each. Brad Hogg picked up three, one to Johnson, and Andrew Simons collected the last two in his one and only over. Bangers all out for 197, on a pitch that was a batsman's paradise. Our turn to bat, and after four overs, we had ...

... couldn't get it right!! Just goes to show money doesn't buy everything. I've been to two one day internationals before, both in London and both, of course, supporting Australia. This one could go either way. Bangers has beaten us before in one day cricket (as I mentioned in another entry). They also have home ground advantage this time and one day games are much, much more popular than test matches. They're faster and more colourful (the guys wear colours instead of just ...

... had some, a price was negotiated and off we went. It didn't take long before we needed directions. This took less than five minutes, and within ten, we had lost Bernie and Paul !!! Along the way we needed petrol, so Andrew, Peter and myself, had a quick game of street cricket with some kids. Once back on the road, we knew we were getting close as the shops on the side of the road were selling life jackets and all sort of shippy things. But still ...

... on Green Line, we figured it was good enough for us as well. At 08:30, Lucy Andrew and I, walked out the door, grabbed seven rickshaws and waited for the Melbournians to come. They were having problems with their bills, so they told us to go. Once at the office, we waited for our mini-bus to go. It was due to leave at 08:45, and at 08:40, the bus decided to leave. So I stood in front of the bus and told him to **** off, so Andrew joined me and we waited. Ten minutes ...

... and down.  Up and down.  While Mrs R excitedly considered the wave interference between two offshore islands, Mr R and Ms Duke turned steadily greener.  In 69th place, there are train journeys in Mauritania.  Admittedly, there is only one train line.  But Mauritania Rail do their utmost to make the experience the ultimate in exotic discomfort.  After 9 hours in the cattle truck, you feel like a sand-blasted camel.  Without the capacity to hold water.  In 70th position, being thrown ...

... of the finest English dishes:  English fish and mash, English macaroni cheese, English prawn chow mein.  Before we leave, maybe we'll even cook some English curry. All this domestic bliss, customized travel consultancy & fixing has made our travelling incredibly easy.  No buses to arrange.  No restaurants to find.  No hotels to negotiate.  Like we said: easy as pie.   No wonder the likes of Michael Palin can make it ...

... side, they would have won.  For the first couple of days we sat the the Club House with the relatively well-heeled Bangladeshi's.  During Days 3 & 4 we moved to the opposite side of the ground to sit amongst enthusiastic locals and a smattering of of Barmy Army-ers (most of the England supporters took VVIP seats - as you will recall, we were too cheapskate to consider joining them).  A careful anthropolgical study of the Barmy Army revealed a chorus of ...