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, […]
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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’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 […]
Behind Bars in Lvshun Prison
Thanks to Dalian’s proximity to Russia (in relative terms, anyway!) and its history which I won’t even claim to know anything about, there remains quite a lot of Soviet influence […]
Supporting My Local Team With Hamsik, Carrasco, Rafa and Co!
Well that didn’t take long, did it? I mentioned a while ago that one of the few things I actually knew about Dalian before taking my job here was that […]
A Trip Down Memory Lane at Tokyo’s Pokemon Mega Centre
If you grew up in England in the mid to late 1990s, then there’s a bloody good chance you were a Pokemon fanatic. I remember having both the Red and […]
