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...