eaving Tashkent at an early hour, we really enjoy the Business Class on the five-hour flight of Turkish Airlines. We cross inhospitable-looking barren mountain ranges and the desert of Turkmenistan. (I can’t imagine those poor Silk Road traders and the armies of old doing it on foot and camel). Then out over …
Tashkent is located at a crossroads of the ancient Silk Road from China to Europe. Over this coming week in Uzbekistan, we will not only visit the cities so important to traders of the Silk Road, but we’ll also travel in the valley along a spur of the mighty Pamirs, the same route as …
eoul! Well worth the fifty-minute drive from Incheon into the city on our stopover between Sydney and Uzbekistan in Central Asia, (somewhere north of Afghanistan). We’re retracing steps along the old ‘Silk Road for a week from Tashkent and down to Samarkand and Bukhara. What we experience in one morning in this …
Annoyingly, I’ve just discovered that my very slick, first blog using Apple Pages, has disappeared with Apple’s cessation of their web hosting service MobileMe last July. I could piece the stories together again, but, I need the will. Not to be beaten though, I resurrect one, about our drive from Fez to Marrakech. Fortunately and …
he writing style of my ‘stories’ is ever evolving. I recall spending laborious hours typing this story on an IBM electric typewriter that I’d lugged home from the office in the sunny annexe to my terrace in Lennox Gardens London. On proudly showing good friend Eddy, he told me that he could read about …