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Posted in BBC Boats, boat, river, Sunflower, Wilder Thing on Feb 21st, 2011
It is 21st [EKUSHEY] Feb – the Language Movement Day. On this day in 1952 Bangladesh began its movement to get their Bengali language to replace Urdu as the official language of the country. A holiday today, and it turned out to be a nice cool morning – perfect weather to be out on the [...]
Posted in Balu River, BBC Boats, boat, Peacock, repair, river, Sunflower, Wilder Thing on Feb 4th, 2011
Out to assist survey one of the 3 country boats belonging to the “Bangladesh Boats Consortium”. Drove out to a small village on the east of Tongi, where the “Wilder Thing” has been pulled out of the water for her annual maintenance and repair work, the fog was lifting and the sun was already up. [...]
Posted in Balu River, boat, Peacock, river on Jun 26th, 2010
25th June Bunch of us went out early morning on the Peacock from Tolna, stopped off at Ullukhola Market and hired this contraption of a three-wheeled “motor-van” to go explore the 2 old 17th century Portuguese Churches in Nagori and Motbari. One other old church that I had visited in 2007 I could not locate this [...]
Posted in Balu River, Bangladesh, boat, farewell, river, Sunflower on Jun 20th, 2010
A lovely evening aboard the Sunflower on the Balu River outside of Dhaka city. A few nice friends, great food and drink, super cool breeze and a magical evening – low billowy clouds, then a pale but pretty sunset, and finally the moon lighting the way….
Posted in BBC Boats, boat, Kingfisher, Peacock on Feb 20th, 2010
Impromptu picnic aboard the Peacock, so we got together a few packs of wafers, drinks, hot-dogs and chicken cup-noodles… the ruckus the 3 girls created would have put a dozen boys to shame We decided to go down-river instead of the usual trip up-river, head past Isapura and then get as far as we could get [...]