UZBEKISTAN, 31st August – 8th September 2017 Pizza, fries and a chocolate milkshake with cream on top. Not the kind of thing to be found in the Uzbek desert, so Alex and I were making the most of it during…
#39: Dea going solo to Samarkand – endless blue beauty and new cycling friends
UZBEKISTAN 8th – 9th June 2017 There was no one to hear Chris’s outburst when he saw his cracked fork, except maybe from the pigeons that circled endlessly over the still and peaceful neighbourhood of Bukhara’s old town. I was…
#40: “Are you going to weld me back together or what?” – Some problems do have solutions, as we near the end of Uzbekistan
UZBEKISTAN, 7th – 17th September 2017 “Guess you’re done then, hitch a ride, and make arrangements to fly home.” Not exactly the inspired solution I’d been hoping to receive when I’d posted the details of my predicament to an online…
#41 – A lot of getting ready for the Pamir Highway in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
TAJIKISTAN, 19th – 27th September 2017 We arrived in Tajikistan late one afternoon to be greeted by a billboard with the face of a suited man bearing down upon us. We assumed him to be an important man, for he…
#42: A puppy called Harry
TAJIKISTAN, 28th September – 3rd October, 2017 It was true, I was so excited (and apprehensive) about what was awaiting us out on the Pamir Highway that I found it hard to wait all nine days in Dushanbe. While we…