Saturday, January 19, 2008

MANDARIN ORIENTAL HOTEL NEW YEAR

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wine was £10 a glass, local beer about 10 times local prices, Champagne $1100 a bottle for new year Puddings we not bad I like a creme bru...
Friday, January 18, 2008

CHILLING OUT IN BURMA

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friend Sue around for dinner, super home made rice pudding after Mandy's special spag bog. Nothing done after a couple of bottles of vi...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

TWO POSTINGS IN A DAY THIS IS TOO MUCH

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Rangoon ferries ( Yangon , Myanmar), give the folks a bridge, its that they want not democracy? Foreigners banned from the little boats so...

SURE SEEMED LIKE HEAVEN TO ME

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City Centre Yangon / Rangoon North Dagon terminal Layover at North Dagon up to 13 of these beauties in sight at this time Another good ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

A CALCUTTA FAMILY WITH DAVE

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After a hard afternoon truck hunting my new found taxi driver friend invited me back to meet the family at Howrah , across the river from C...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

SOME AMAZING INDIAN TRUCKS AT HOWRAH

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never been chased out of so many places since Barnsley bus station, well my taxi driver friend understood what I wanted and we set off fr...
Monday, January 14, 2008

CHRISTMAS IN CALCUTTA OBEROI LUXURY THANK GOODNESS

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View from our Oberoi Calcutta window left to interior courtyard, pool etc to right of scene. Our room over Christmas The Oberoi bar, no G...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

SO THAT WAS CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY WAS HAVING FUN

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Christmas Eve at the Westin in Dhaka, we were the first customers on the first night at the Italian restaurant and bar which opened that ni...

CALCUTTA TRAMS HOW LONG CAN THEY SURVIVE

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Boxing day in Calcutta, near the Oberoi hotel on Esplanade and the tram terminus, all the routes o the S West through the Maidan have been ...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

TRUCKS AND END GAMES BANGLADESH

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We had fun collecting tickets for a friend at the huge bus station on the fringes of the city, it was served by double deckers, I nearly ru...