tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573382596442861899.post1166942794237646938..comments2023-11-02T01:55:28.254-07:00Comments on A Canuck Amuck: Back to the BizarreGlennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766968264733510251noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573382596442861899.post-14758382750726733702011-12-14T06:25:34.330-08:002011-12-14T06:25:34.330-08:00Hello Kristel (Ms) and Carrie (Ms)
Thank you so mu...Hello Kristel (Ms) and Carrie (Ms)<br />Thank you so much for visiting Bangladesh specially Cox's Bazar. <br />I am Jahid, a master’s student, from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Japan. Currently I am doing research on tourism industry. My research topic is "Poverty Alleviation Through Sustainable Tourism: A Critical Analysis of 'Pro-Poor Tourism' and Implications for Sustainability in Bangladesh". <br />If you have any suggestions or advice about Bangladesh tourism industry please let me know. I hope i can use also in my thesis. <br />Thank you in advance. <br />Best regards<br />Jahid <br />Mail: mdanja10@apu.ac.jp <br /> jahidm@msn.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01474224077837094657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573382596442861899.post-54204918316443870172009-10-22T21:39:43.740-07:002009-10-22T21:39:43.740-07:00I can almost smell the 'sights' as I'm...I can almost smell the 'sights' as I'm sitting here reading your posts! Bangladeshi certainly is a nasal safari sometimes isn't it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573382596442861899.post-61275407767152977622009-10-18T16:21:42.277-07:002009-10-18T16:21:42.277-07:00I'm not dead, although at times I suspected ot...I'm not dead, although at times I suspected otherwise. <br /><br />Dead fish is not great advert for the beach, but then barf-o-rama is probably not featured in travel brochures. The Boy Scout welcome is the cherry on the sundae. <br /><br />I'm home but in two days on the road again. This time teaching in Mississauga, then in Hull/UK for a conference.<br /><br />I anticipate eating English breakfast for a week -- everything in bacon fat. Then Halloween in Amsterdam.<br /><br />This will be my first trip to Amsterdam. I'm meeting friends and we have 1.5 days together. I arrive noon on Oct 30; they arrive that night. We hit the Museum District Saturday. I fly to Toronto Sunday; they take the train home. Quick. <br /><br />My recent travels have been weather driven. In Ontario, it's been a cold summer that felt more like autumn. Now Autumn is here and it feels like November -- at the cottage for Thanksgiving, we had snow. But the colors were spectucular.<br /><br />I arrived in Shanghai in late July to typhoon Marokat. Shanghai had not had a direct typhoon hit in 50 years. Rather than the 40 C temps I expected, we had 19 - glorious for a Canadian, winter for the Chinese. Rain fell daily, temps roller-coastered, humidity hovered between none and 300 percent, wind howled.<br /><br />I left typhoon China and returned to tornado Toronto. On the Friday after recouping from jetlag, everything turned black as night --it was 3 in the afternoon. The wind grew violent, trees creeked. TV news showed videos of funnel clouds hitting all around Toronto. <br /><br />Everything shut down, trees fell, houses lost roofs, cars were picked up and relocated, floods...40 minutes of havoc. <br /><br />I headed to Mexico City the last week of August to speak at conferences. Before that week, I had only flown through Mexico City between flights elsewhere. I was impressed. The food was great [mole is incredible - pronouced molay to differentiate it from the animal]; the people are wonderful; the city is full of history. <br /><br />I had not counted on the weather -- Mexico City is in the mountains and cool. August is rainy season. There's that ubiquitous precipitation again!<br /><br />En route back from Mexico, I visited my kids in Houston. I expected incredible heat, and was not 'disappointed' -- 110 F with 800 percent humidity. <br /><br />But keeping with the water theme, I arrived in Houston to a massive electrical storm. Lightning hit the airport; security systems went off. Alarms blaring, roads flooded, heat never abated even after sunset. A spectacular sight was lightning bolts in the night sky. Even if the storm never broke over you, bolts lit up the horizon and the sound rumbled through the evening. Storms arrived like clockwork each evening. Quite the treat.<br /><br />Home again to the resurgence of summer. As school started, the dog days of August came in September. All those kids going back to school missed summer twice: first, during summer, and now as they traipsed off to classrooms. It was summer for about 2 weeks.<br /><br />Mid September I was north of Montreal for a week. The clouds loomed heavy; it was cold -- chill seeped into your bones. But autumn hadn't arrived: the colors were muted. Disappointing, because the season was off kilter. We didn't see autumn until Thanksgiving weekend in Ontario -- brilliant but late. <br /><br />Weather is no longer top of mind as I get ready for the next trips: Mississauga and UK to the end of October. Banff for a week in mid November; 8 days in Shanghai until the first week of December. <br /><br />Someone said it's Christmas soon. I'm looking forward to that -- if for no other reason than to stay home.<br /><br />Sorry for playing meteorologist in this blog. But the weather was so unusual that it had to be mentioned. Just observation - a record of what it was like over the past 4 months.<br /><br />Talk to you soon,<br />victorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com