Episode 15 Off again on the train we were. Well, if we thought all the trains ran as effeciently as that fast train had when we came to Samakand we had to adjust our thinking, Not that I'm big on thinking, I leave that to L, she isn't much good at it either really, just thinks she is. See what I mean. We arrived at the station to find those that had left much earlier to catch a different train were still waiting, theirs had been delayed an hour or more. Ours...

Episode 14 There must be something in the air in Dushanbe as many people get ill there and my lot succumbed to another bout of something very nasty when we returned and we were stuck there for several more days before they felt well enough to head off. When we did set out again we had a revised plan as neither of my lot felt up to the approximately 12 trip to Samakand. Our revised plan was to take a share taxi back to Khujand, perhaps spend the night there, t...

Episode 13 To begin with L wants to make a bit of a comment on the local toilet paper. She says that it could quite easily be used as fine sand paper, and is not what is needed when one's posterior has become a little tender from a touch of the local 'Delhi Belly". Both of my lot have had this bug over the past week. We stayed on an extra few days in Dushanbe because traveling long journeys in a car full of people isn't the best plan if sudden loo stops are...

Episode 12 Fortunately it wasn't such a hot morning the day we came to leave Osh. There was lots of cloud around and it was the coolest morning we'd had since the Pamir.We took a marshrutka (mini bus) to the bus station where we had planned to take the 10am bus. I was in the backpack on L's back and caused much comment. Whenever I had been taken on an outing it seemed I caused a stir. On a couple of occasions L had to keep a tight hold on me or I may have been to...