Imagine being stuck in Milton Keynes for a week with absolutely nothing to do.
That’s pretty much what’s happened to us, being marooned in Aktau, Kazakhstan.
Category Archives: Central Asia (The Stans)
29
May
May
Drum roll please, the results are in.
After about four trees felled due to printing a thousand forms, three embassy visits in two countries and an HIV test (required for the application), our Turkmenistan visa response has arrived …
20
May
May
If we were married, this is the week the divorce papers would have been filed.The last nine days has been one long case of domestic abuse.
If we were married to our bikes that is….Our poor bikes have been through all sorts of mistreatment, it’s a wonder they’ve not given up and left us.
08
May
May
The next place on your “to visit” list needs to be Central Asia. We bottled cycling through Afghanistan and Pakistan, were too wimpy to go over the Himalayas into China, and so flew to Kazakhstan from Delhi touching down in Almaty last week.