Ridiculous – the only way to fly between Dhaka and Pakistan’s capital Islamabad is to set off at this ungodly hour, to then spend the rest of the day in transit in Karachi airport. This thought depresses me.
There are queues of men in white baseball caps at the check-in desks. They are all much shorter than me. They wear [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘planes’
August 25, 2008
2 in the morning at Dhaka airport
August 5, 2008
sick birds
The sign-board outside an office of the national airline, Biman Bangladesh, always gives me a chuckle when I pass it on my way into the office:
“Press, Medical Centre and Poultry Complex.”
It always makes me wonder why they put their doctors, press officers and chicken farmers all in the same place. I assume they don’t actually keep their chickens [...]