Back at home, back at work, full of stories about Bangladesh - a veritable 'Bangla-bore' - and with a huge album of disappointing photographs (this was before I got a digital camera and I have no eye for photography) I turned towards the diary I had been diligently keeping whilst away. Long and boring and self-indulgent, I looked at it again and again and began to think it would make a good travel book if I ever managed to edit it. I'd always done a lot of writing but never finished anything full-length before so this was going to be a huge challenge; the aim to show the 'other side' of Bangladesh beyond the dismal and shcoking news reports that tend to sideline it for the Western world...
Fast forward to the present and yes, the reporter and photographer from the Evening News, duly interviewed me. And simon. And my mother. No idea what the two (very nice) people thought of the chaos, or if/when there will be a story.
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