What I want to know is: what was Duncan doing while Laura was playing football?

Cracking updates, plucky travelling folk. The football game sounded awesome - must have been a real treat to see Tony Adams in action. Only Hancox could have similarly ground down the opposition with constant appeals to the linesman and punts to the lone striker loitering dourly... oh hang on...

Presumably most of the locals are Man U fans?

Have a good time,

Fletch

Can we presume that Laura wasn't heavily involved in the writing of the last, very long, paragraph from the Borobudor and Prambanan entry?

I've got an appointment to get my India visa tomorrow morning at 9:30. i'm locked in and ready to why not myself up some in IndonesIA with you chumps. See you on the 28th.

Hancox, I recommend that you attend the salon immediately. Your ultra-long roots are a disgrace.

Maybe you should have gone striped-punk in the first place. It would have solved a lot of bother.

All this talk of Turkmenistan but no talk of melons or the melon festival.

I know that you might not be there for the second Sunday in August when it takes place but surely it merits a mention.

The arch doesn't look massively neutral. It actually looks quite pro Turkmenbashi

No obvious health and safety precautions in and around the entrance to Hell ...

Did anyone fall in?

Dear Professor Hancocks (Cambridge Archeology),can I ask for a more critical review of the local flora and fauna please (if you see any at all), and some amusing footage of bottoms at your earliest convenience.

regards,The Management, University of Melbourne

It has just dawned on me that Nukus rhymes with mucus and that Bishkek sounds rather like fishcake. Isn't that interesting ...

Hey Laura - your posts make for very entertaining reading while stuck in an office! Keep them coming. The scenery looks magnificent... All the best and stay safe. Brem

Dear Duncan

I am desperately sorry that you have tumbled so far in life that the you are now Professor Of Archeology At The University Of Cambridge.

Only the other day you were a soap-dodging hermit with dodgy highlights and some questionable facial hair - and you you've lost all that kudos by taking a chair at the second rate university.

Blog is great guys! More media than you can shake a stick at, 'fact'.