Another good night’s sleep, followed by another mediocre hotel breakfast – though I did discover that you can ask for fried eggs which improved things slightly. The first group of people to submit their Iranian visa applications then headed off…
Whiling away a day (Ashgabat rest day one)
Finally a good night’s sleep! I was in bed by 2130 and didn’t wake until 0645 all of which made me feel a whole lot more alert. The hotel breakfast is decidedly mediocre again with the same boring things as…
Melting in Mary (rest day)
I’ve decided that Mary is very like Canberra – it’s huge, massively spread out (and consequently difficult to get round), full of government buildings, and really there’s not a lot of point going there! Perhaps unlike Canberra it also gets…
Beautiful Bukhara (rest day)
‘Things’ have improved, in that trips to the loo were not required in the night, but I was still feeling pretty ropey this morning. I had some breakfast, which for a change didn’t make me feel any worse than I…
Still sick in Samarkand (rest day two)
I was so hopeful when I went to bed last night that all was going to be well, but frequent trips to the loo and the now familiar nausea were still with me when I woke this morning. Again I’ve…
Stunning Samarkand (rest day 1)
Things weren’t great overnight on the stomach front and I wasn’t feeling too flash when I woke up, but decided to eat breakfast anyway to try and replenish some of what’s been burnt over the last 48 hours. We average…
Dripping hot in Dushanbe (rest day)
I didn’t manage to sleep in as much as I’d have liked to as I woke up starving just before 0700 and couldn’t get back to sleep after that. The hotel breakfast was fine, but they only had instant coffee…
Rest day in Khorog (rest day)
Arrrggghhhhh…!!! Awake at 0330 because I’ve got a runny bottom again! And it turns out I’m not the only one, by the end of the day there were eight of us who were unwell. As a consequence my plans for…
MMMMMMM Murghab (rest day)
After dinner last night where the bread was super fresh the rock hard stuff we got at breakfast was a serious disappointment! The rest of breakfast wasn’t so bad, with fried eggs, a pancake with home made jam and tea.…
A quiet day in Osh (rest day)
Today has been a very quiet day – just what was needed after seven consecutive riding days, several of which were really very tough! I slept in late, had a great hotel breakfast and helped a couple of people with…