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Children Really are the Future

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Not a bad nights sleep considering that the bed was hard and I had a mosquito or two trap in the mosquito net that was meant to protect me from the pesky blighters. Breakfast was very similar to dinner, omelettes; it is a good thing that I learned to like omelettes before I left England (a big thank you to CoActive).  Breakfast finished I decide to walk around the Center and meet the centres horse, named brace in Indian.  The horse is an important tool for cerebral palsy sufferers.  Having made aqua inane so with the horse I watched the morning pass by the centres outdoor kiosk, talking to various patients and carers.  One of which seems very keen on practising his English and will soon start bombarding me with Facebook messenger texts ( he may ned to be purged). Peter is updating his lists, and writing emails etc so i am waiting for him to pop out.  When he does arrive we are introduced to Valerie's daughter, and Asha (means hope) ,Sharmony's daughter, by Sharmony.  Shar

Dead Cow in Calcutta, Inspirational People in Dhaka.

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The day started by passing a dead cow lying on the side of the road outside of our hotel enroute to the airport.  It was just lying there, rigamortise set in, legs stiff lying on its side, bazaar! We had a white plain taxi taking us to the airport, but Calcutta is full of small yellow ambassador cabs.  Mixed in with these cabs are Indian "London" red buses.  They are manufactured by Ashok Leeland, I am guessing that this is an offshoot from British Leyland, but will have to research. Today visibility was a little low so we had to request. Special VFR clearance to get going and climb to 5,000 ft on a north easterly direction.  Today's flight is a short hop and we are in Bangladesh airspace with in 18 mins from departure.  As we flew closer to Dhaka the scattered cloud base was at around 2,500 ft.  So for a period we were above , at and then below the scattered layer.  Flying Bangladesh we could see that them,and was greener and scattered with more trees and vegetatio