Getting a Bangladesh Visa on Arrival
Correct as of January 2020 The internet is full of anecdotes and cautionary tales when it comes to getting visas for different countries with the biggest question often being whether […]
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Making the Most of Sylhet…By Getting Out of Town! Part Two: Lalakhal
Another day, another bus ride from a totally random spot on the side of the street. The destination today was Lalakhal, a stretch of river also near the Indian border, […]
Making the Most of Sylhet…By Getting Out of Town! Part One: Shada Pathor
If you’ve ever met a Bangladeshi in England then there’s a good chance they’re from the Sylhet division. In fact, so common is the move to England that the city […]
Sreemangal in a Day by Accident
With a kind-of-delicious-kind-of-just-sweet seven layer tea down me, I joined my new friends Shohan and Sakib who had hired a CNG (tuk tuk) for the day to see the sights […]
Sreemangal’s Tea-riffic Seven Layer Chai!
It’s no exaggeration to say that I drank more cups of tea in the first month of 2020 than I did in the last decade. Seriously. With morning tea being […]
In Pictures: Dhaka
A picture is apparently worth a thousand words, so instead of writing a few thousand more words about my trip to Dhaka here are some of my favourite pictures from the trip!
Delays, Demands and Much Disturbance: Dhaka to Sreemangal by Train
4.34pm on a Saturday afternoon. I’ve just got on board the Jayantika Express train from Dhaka to Sreemangal. I befriended a few people at the station who helped me on […]
Bangabandhu Gold Cup Action in Dhaka!
It will come as no surprise to anyone to hear that despite planning absolutely bugger all for my time in Dhaka, I still managed to suss out the goings-on in […]
Dizzying Dhaka: Making Friends in Bangladesh’s Chaotic Capital
If I could use one phrase to sum up Dhaka – Bangladesh’s crazy capital city – it would be ‘go with the flow’. Plans are all well and good, but […]
