First Post from Bangladesh

I'm blogging from the hotel in Bangladesh after being awake since 7am on 27th November in the UK.

We've been to the WaterAid Bangladesh office today and met the WA staff, who are all really nice.  The aim for tomorrow is to visit a pre-intervention slum in dhaka city before travelling 6 hours by car to Khulna including 30 minute ferry trip.

My first impressions of Bangladesh are that it's an amazing place.  It's just like being on a crazy Asian film set with near traffic misses round every corner!  There's an abundance of shops selling Alloy wheels and bull bars, then a row of shops dedicated to building.  They use bamboo as scaffold here and it's amazing to see.

We went for an after lunch walk around the local area and were followed by a sweet group of kids who were basically after Taka (money), but at that point no-one had any.  This is Bangladesh, and tomorrow the reality will hit home.

Hope to update again soon