Author Archives: Bridget and Graham
2012 stats
This blog got about 3,800 views in 2012 and most people seem to have been interested in the post about Iran. I am not updating this blog at the moment, but I hope everyone that looked at it found it … Continue reading
The last post
We are home. And we’ve finally got round to uploading all our photos. There are folders for Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. From Iran onwards we couldn’t get onto Flickr or the blog, and though we were very happy to … Continue reading
Kazakhstan
Crossing our last central Asian land border we were once again surprised by how much changes over such a short distance. As Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are such close neighbours and were both part of the former Soviet Union we expected … Continue reading
Uzbekistan
Once again, thanks to Graham Brown for posting this blog from Orkney. We still can’t access the blog or Flickr. Cycling through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan the layers of history are spread out before you: from the ancient city of Merv … Continue reading
Turkmenistan
This blog has been published by our friend Graham Brown from deepest Orkney as we still can’t update the blog from here. Thank you very much Graham. (Graham: it’s a pleasure. Isn’t the internet wonderful?). We were in and out … Continue reading
Iran
This blog has been published by our friend Andrew Estabrook because we can’t access WordPress in Iran. Thank you very much Andrew. (The pleasure is all mine – Andrew) The Turkish border with Iran was straightforward enough, although Graham had … Continue reading
Eastern Turkey, Erzurum to Van
We seem to be having a bit of a mid-trip dip as we’ve found the past few weeks pretty tough. The heat, the terraın, a good measure of homesickness and the effort of trying to organise basic things like food and … Continue reading
Odessa to Erzurum
After nine days hanging about it was a relief to be on the boat to cross the Black Sea. But in typical Ukrainian fashion the process of boarding took several hours. We collected our embarkation cards and waıted. We had … Continue reading
Ukraine
Ukraine is not a holiday. Unless you are spending a long weekend in Kyev or Lviv – neither of which we visited – it’s quite hard work. We crossed the border from Poland on the main Krakow/Lviv road, but almost … Continue reading
From Dresden to Krakow
Leaving Dresden we headed north and then north east to take advantage of the relatively flat terrain to try to make up some lost time. We made good pregress now, regularly hitting our 50 mile a day target and sometimes … Continue reading
