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Day 455: Digging For Fire

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:31 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:4 Comments

31.03.10: I left in the morning with Nazik and did a bit of blah before meeting up with Aima again. I needed to buy a present for my girlfriend’s birthday,…

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Day 454: Unpronounceabilistan

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:30 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/The Odyssey Expedition
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30.03.10: Wasn’t too happy when the guy from Vladivostok whom I was sharing the taxi with (and someone I thought was a friend) whipped out my passport and claimed I…

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Day 453: My Kingdom For A Biro

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  • Post published:30 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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29.03.10: By 9am I was back outside the Kyrgyzstan embassy. I put my name down on the list and headed over to the DHL office to see if my replacement…

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Days 451-452: Movin’ On Up

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:29 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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27.03.10-28.03.10: Woke up at Baha’s flat wondering if anybody got the number of the truck that hit me before stumbling back to Fred’s. Her mate in Samakand (down south) had…

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Day 450: The Incident

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  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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26.03.10: I had real trouble dragging myself out of bed this morning. I asked Fred to wake me up, which she did, but what I should have asked is for…

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Day 449: The Great Game

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  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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25.03.10: The plan today was simple. Well, I thought it was. First up, visit the Kyrgyzstan Embassy and hand over my passport, while that visa is processing put my application…

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Day 448: Paranoid? Who Said That?!

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  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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24.03.10: I woke to find the two guys that I was sharing a room with sitting on their beds staring at me like I had just dropped from space and…

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Day 447: The Aral Sea Disaster

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  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kazakhstan/The Odyssey Expedition/Uzbekistan
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23.03.10: The train arrived at the town of Beyneu at about ten minutes to five in the morning, enjoyed a cup of tea in the little station cafe and after…

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Day 446: Guns N’ Roses

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  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kazakhstan/The Odyssey Expedition
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22.03.10: I gave up all hope of a schedule months ago. When people ask me (and they do) when I think I'll be finished I just shrug and change the…

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Day 445: The Naxçivan

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  • Post published:28 March 2010
  • Post category:Central Asia/Kazakhstan/The Odyssey Expedition
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21.03.10: This must be the most incredibly naff ship I've been on so far; all dirty floors, peeling fake wood wallpaper, murky corridors, broken lights, stained matress, rusty bulkheads, dripping…

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