Went to church on Sunday morning in a ROUND church… There are four of these round churches on Bornholm. Actually four out of the five in all of Denmark I believe, so the islanders are very proud of that fact. This one is called Østerlars and is the largest of the four. As we were…
I ate smoked herring. This is one of Bornholm’s specialities, which I had heard MUCH about. After church on Sunday we went to Gudhjem on the north east coast, bought us some herring and sat down by the harbour with our Pinse Beers, black bread and butter, and ate. It was delicious!! Afterwards we wandered…
So I left the best of my Bangladesh experiences till last. Actually it is quite hard to pick any one experience as the best because it was just an eye-opening, humbling, motivating trip. But the two days I spent at the Baptist Mission Integrated School in Dhaka sneaked in there at the number 1 spot….
Monday 23rd, Nilphamari and Giabandha (northern Bangladesh) “The last two days I have spent with The Leprosy Mission, visiting their hospital and vocational training centre in Nilphamari yesterday, and seeing their Integration work at a government hospital in Giabandha. The TLM hospital is a place of peace, an oasis of calm and beauty in this…
Saturday morning I woke up early and got picked up at 6am by the staff of the Child Sight Foundation. We drove the three hours north to their project centre in Sirajgonj, crossing over the longest bridge in the country, 3km wide over a river that looked more like a sea… CSF works hard to…
Friday 20 March, Dhaka “We went to one slum district in Dhaka and weaved our way between the shacks made of wood and iron. Then the path became a bridge made of rickety bamboo, two metres above a pool of many things I did not want to contemplate. ‘Don’t drop anything you want to keep’…