Dhaka - one month in

One month in to our new posting - so what have we been up to?

After the first week in the Westin hotel, we moved with the camping set into the apartment on Road 79 

We managed to get an internet line connected

We've been finding out good places to eat

I've developed some kind of morning routine (swim, yoga, pilates, yoga, aqua-aerobics), and been checking out the different markets and supermarkets

After some plumbing work in the flat we had a water leak / flood in the "family room" (apparently nothing whatsoever to do with the plumber)

Lon has been settling into work

We went on a days river trip

There have been the first demonstrations and security warnings - due to the anti-islamist film.

We have experienced our first "Hartal"/ one day mass strike - which meant instead of picking up the car on Sunday, Lon went on Monday to pick it up somewhere near a railway station - there is more of a story for Lon to tell.

Yesterday saw the arrival of our worldly goods from the container

Jahangir ticks of the box numbers

Everything (all 500 boxes) was carried up 5 flights of stairs by a team of wiry Bangladeshi men, while our driver did the hard job of playing box number bingo

But we won't be unpacking.  It became pretty quickly evident that the building site next door is too noisy to live alongside - as the flats are not due for completion until April 2014.  They regularly work from 7.30 a.m. - 22.30 p.m.

We were apprehensive about admitting we had made a mistake, and whether the landlady would agree to let us out of the contract, but fortunately that was not a problem.

I have been spending the past two weeks flat hunting, trying to find somewhere in our budget, with natural light, and not too close to a noisy road or construction site.  Not an easy task.

We think that we found the place yesterday.  Now the embassy need to agree....