Day 462: The Herat of the Matterc
07.04.10: Part of the reason I’m doing The Odyssey is to prove that the world is a lot more open than people think. If I, an ordinary bod from Liverpool,…
Day 461: The Forbidden Stan
06.04.10: Groggy and grumpy I awoke from my nightborn passage through Uzbekistan. Like Alexander The Great so many years before (and Michael Caine and Sean Connery more recently), I was…
Day 460: The Wizard of Uz
05.04.10: Today was yet another D-Day in terms of getting visas and getting going. Within minutes of me wiping the sleep from my eyes I arrived at the Turkmenistan embassy…
Day 459: Doctorin’ The Docket
04.04.10: I may have mentioned this before, but for some stupid reason you have to register three days after you arrive in Uzbekistan. The problem is you cannot register that…
Day 458: Can You Imagine?
03.04.10: So where to next? The plan is on Monday to head off towards Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Three of the hardest countries in the world to visit and visit…
Day 457: The Land That Time Forgot
02.04.10: By 5am I had made it around that pesky enclave of Sohk and had arrived at the border of Tajikistan. Chances are you know Afghanistan and Pakistan rather well,…
Day 456: Bish Bash Bosh
01.04.10: Sorry about the lack of blog updates this month – I’ve been hammering the website to make it all fabby and groovy for when the telly show starts in…
Day 455: Digging For Fire
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,…
Day 454: Unpronounceabilistan
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…
Day 453: My Kingdom For A Biro
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…