The Mystery of the Missing Handicap

As has been mentioned before, M likes to golf.  A lot.  And fortunately, one of the nicer things in Dhaka are the two golf courses.  So when we arrived, 15 months ago, M inquired about getting his handicap recognized so that he could sign up to play in tournaments at the nicer of the two [...]

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It’s been a while

Not a lot of blogging going on around here lately.  Lots of work mostly, various social-type events, and I’ve been attempting to study Bangla again.  All kinds of fun, really.
So that hasn’t left much time to get out and about around Dhaka, but we’ve had a couple mini-excursions.  Last weekend we went out to Savar [...]

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Big critter

It might not be the best photo ever, but this huge iguana (?) was on the golf course today:

I thought it was pretty cool.
As a sidenote, my caddy was very concerned today that I don’t really feel the need to play all the holes. Also, they force the caddy to use a rental bag [...]

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Golf!

I know that lots of you are really concerned about this issue, so you’ll be relieved to know that we played our first 9 holes of golf today! We got half-a-set of clubs this week in our unaccompanied baggage, which was more than enough to “hit the links.” It was, in [...]

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