Check out this forecast, and you’ll see what I mean about melting. Temperatures around 40°C for the next two weeks, no rain, no cloud, nothing. Just hot hot hot. Obviously if you’re reading this some time in the future, that forecast may well be for 3 feet of snow, but trust me right now it’s [...]
Entries from June 23rd, 2007
Go north, young man
June 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
This was how the conversation was going with Alex, a Hungarian I met in Bukhara. And so I am going north, via Kazakhstan to China, rather than via Tajikistan. I will miss out Kashgar, but I will see Urumqi. “I’m 56 years old. I’m no longer scared of anything. I’ve seen enough. Death? No, I’m [...]
Tags:Kazakhstan·Uzbekistan
And there’s a SUPERMARKET!
June 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Oh dear. Things are all getting a bit bad when you get genuinely excited at seeing a supermarket. I didn’t really need much, but I wanted to go in and push a trolley around gleaming white air-conditioned aisles, marvelling at the ridiculous levels of choice available. I ended up spending $20 (i.e. quite a lot), [...]
Tags:Uzbekistan
Relax/Relapse in Samarkand
June 14th, 2007 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Grrrr. I’m starting to get a bit annoyed with this now – had either a relapse (or a fresh dose from something dodgy eaten at the bazaar) of the stomach problems I had last week, and ended up spending another day in bed. This means I didn’t leave Samarkand today as planned, but it doesn’t [...]
Tags:Uzbekistan
Shattered, just shattered
June 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
10 days in a row, and over 1,000km, across hot dry deserts, in temperatures over 35 is apparently my limit. I’m just absolutely shattered, feeling worse than I ever have before, barely capable of any speech, let alone coherent thought. I’m rolling into Bukhara, Uzbekistan, and it’s a beautiful city, but I’m just completely beyond [...]
Tags:Turkmenistan·Uzbekistan