A new day, another sunshine, a new adventure to a new part of the country and world! We were doing an organised tour with Get your Guide to the mountains outside of Tashkent in Chimgan (Amirsoy Mountains). Our guide picked us up in his littler car with his driver - I wasn't expecting this I was expecting a group big whole bus. This was going to be much better because who wants to wait around for ransomers all day anyhow. Our guide was a funny round man that loo...

Friday, Friday! Up early to get our train to the city, Tashkent. One day in Samarkand was enough. Early but clearly this place is a sleepy one as there was lack of people and many places closed. Still fresh and cool, we got up to go for breakfast on the roof, thinking we needed to be a little more rushed to ensure we got there on time. The breakfast was good and we were the only ones there which was nice as we had first dibs. I also took some snacks for the train...

An early morning start, parking down in Al Raha outside Annie's friend house and across the way from the airport so that we dont have to pay through the nose for taxis or payment at the airport parking. A little nervous about it being parked there for a long weekend collecting dust, I hope its not shipped off anywhere. Although I am not sure why I am worrying, there are abonded cars everywhere in the UAE left for months if not years before being collected. We wer...