northlandboy

Quick post for some good news – my replacement barbag turned up yesterday, and my Kazakh visa was processed no problems. This means that I can get moving again! My Kazakh visa starts on the 14th, so the plan is to leave here on the 14th, hopefully get to Almaty in 2 days, and then [...]

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Progress is being made! I now have a New Zealand passport, with a Kyrgyz visa valid until 2/9/07, so I am legal in this country. The Kazakh embassy accepted my application for a Kazakh tourist visa, starting 14/8/07. I should get that back on the 9th. I then only need to get a Chinese visa, [...]

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The physical entity known as Lindsay Hill is now a legal entity once more! Yesterday morning I collected my replacement passport from the British Consul here in Bishkek. I only held it in my hands for half an hour, as I then had to go and hand it in to the Kyrgyz Consular Service, to [...]

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After the trials and tribulations of the last week, I thought I would post a few random musings/observations on Kyrgyzstan for today’s discourse.

Language: Someone asked me the other day what language you use here. My answer was “Whatever I feel like”. That’s a bit flippant, but there is some truth to it. Many people here [...]

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I’ve been thinking about the positive aspects of what’s happened, and here’s some of the things I’ve come up with:

The loss of all the photos means that there won’t be a slide-show at the end. Dad was worried he was going to have to sit through a long, boring slideshow.
Dropping weight – all cyclists are [...]

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