Bill Price

One of the benefits of living in Bangladesh is that we are just round the corner (well, the other side of Myanmar) from Barry, so we can go to keep an eye on him at intervals, much to his embarrasment. The end of October saw the back of Ramadan, and the Eid festivities. The national holiday in Bangladesh gave us the opportunity to visit Barry in Bangkok. Masud at Travel Channel organized our flights, pick-ups and hotel, at a very competitive rate.

The new Bangkok International Airport is very impressive, and a lot more efficient than the old one. We had a limo take us to the Baiyoke Sky Hotel in Bangkok, the tallest hotel in Thailand at 88 floors. We were upgraded to a Junior Suite on the 48^th floor, but had to take the express lift to the restaurant on the 77^th floor for breakfast – quite an experience!

Barry came and joined us on the first evening and he looked well, but didn’t eat well. He arranged for us to go on a river cruise the next day, and would pick us up at 11.

The next day came and went. Barry had drunk one or two too many, and had not surfaced in time for the river trip. Oh to be young again! I saw him a day later, when we went for a traditional Thai massage (not too hard please!) and he seemed to have survived alcoholic poisoning.

We still got to go shopping though, in various malls and Suan Lum, the great night market. Most importantly, we got several bottles of Chang to take back to Dhaka!

Just so you know, the project is called MATT2 – Managing At The Top 2. There was a MATT1, which people liked, but too small to make any real difference. It’s due to last 6-7 years from June 2006, and we are here for the first three years. Here are some pictures of Dhaka.* WPG2 Plugin Not Validated ** WPG2 Plugin Not Validated *