COLD SPELL HERE AND A BIT TOO HOT IN DHAKA

still no movement on the tragic Bangladesh front with things going from back to worse at present with a 48 hour hartal now being called in Dhaka and Khulna provinces. With railways torn up already the reinstatement of services could take some time even if it all blew over tomorrow. I spoke with Martin today and we are talking again on Monday if things are no better we'll fly i and then get out again, there are 6 flights to Calcutta a day so we'll get out somehow. The back up plan will be India perhaps the narrow gauge railways. If the transport is running within Dhaka itself it may be possible to get a couple of days filming done, the army are escorting a lot of traffic to Chittagong although its getting between locations which would remain a sticking point. If we got a couple of days in Dhaka it would be something at least. I've written to our contact there and assured him that at present our plans are unchanged. Whatever happens it's certainly going to be a bit of an adventure one way or the other although we'd rather like to come out of it in one piece, talking of which I've put some of our Syria trip online on Youtube.

I've been busy writing a new training course again, blid leading the blind to some extent but nothing changes there theh although it's bloomin cold in my office at ground level it's baking with heating on boost above head height. I did however manage to get a bit of early work done on the 2016 trip to China and PDRNK. I also had a peek at some packages to Colombia for next year or even Christmas, far too touristy though so I'd have to find a local agent and get something put together for us. The net has been very quiet with only a small trickle of DVD orders although the phone has been busy. Tonight here are covers for the last few DVD release. I'm also trying to make head way with the Belgium tram material now on second attempt after returning to scratch on the first attempt although I do keep getting small clips which I can now identify as Austria and not edit out. We heard from Sue and her foot/ankle is still really sore after turning her ankle over on the road in Cuba.