CliveW

I recently spent around 6 weeks in Sri Lanka/southern India - and I'd wholeheartedly recommend it. Absolutely beautiful, incredibly friendly locals, very cheap. The food is also great (assuming you like south-east Asian cuisine, there isn't a lot of variety).

There's a very vibrant tech scene in Bangalore, although not much outside of that in my experience. Internet cafes aren't that commonplace (though not rare either), but 3G internet was pretty cheap (a few $s per GB), and available on a pay-as-you-go basis.

More-or-less a direct port. They added a stand-alone 'arena mode', and a few new NPC companions, 2 of whom have an associated quest/new area.

Baldur's Gate is one of my favorite games of all time, and I'm generally behind the Enhanced Edition - I hope a new generation of gamers will be inspired by the world of BG, as I was 14 years ago.

Having said that, playing BG:EE on PC for the past week I've been disappointed by the lack of polish, and the number of bugs still present. GameBanshee - probably the most respected site about computer RPGs - published a pretty critical review (of the PC version):

http://gamebanshee.com/reviews/110209-baldurs-gate-enhanced-...

I hope the iPad version benefited from an extra week of polish. An earlier build was rejected, implying the have done some bug-squishing:

https://twitter.com/TrentOster/status/275743862507589632