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 brulee
retreated to the Irish pub where Guinness was affordable, for 10 pints I got a New Year shirt
good firework display at midnight, had four displays from adjacent hotels
friend Sue around for dinner, super home made rice pudding after Mandy's special spag bog. Nothing done after a couple of bottles of vino but hope to get the last of the films edited over the weekend. Next week we resume our UK bus visits as the Asian trip fades into a memory
The Governors residence at Yangon
Evening on the veranda two weeks ago now
Rangoon ferries ( Yangon , Myanmar), give the folks a bridge, its that they want not democracy?
City Centre Yangon / Rangoon
North Dagon terminal
Layover at North Dagon
up to 13 of these beauties in sight at this time
Another good spot out to the north of Rangoon
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 Calcutta. We sent them copies of all the photos and some of us and our own home.
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 from Howrah station near Calcutta in search of the truck yards, we found plenty, some great footage coming up meanwhile these should be a taster of delights to come.
View from our Oberoi Calcutta window left to interior courtyard, pool etc to right of scene.
Our room over Christmas
The Oberoi bar, no Guinness though
Christmas night dinner poolside, four course Indian, yummy
Superb food at the Oberoi, not a tummy problem throughout the trip
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 night.
A drink to the new bar
only 8 diners so service was spot on
The waiters were teaching me a few words of Bangla each night
The food was spot on
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 abandoned but still a lot of variety with hardly two trams alike but the net work much reduced and frequency on some routes spartan. Passengers generally thin on the ground despite the photo above, easy enough to do shots riding in the open doorway, one compartment is 1st class the other second with tickets to match.
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 ruined a pair of trousers riding in the cab on top of the engine
This was also the start of the haulage and factories, mainly brick yards and aggregate at this point
The colourful trucks are just a taster of the gems to come in Calcutta and Burma
Dusk comes early but I kept shooting as much as I could, the bridge across the river was a good vantage point near the bus station and brick yards
