Thai Airways from Sydney
 2019年5月8日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
 2019年5月8日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
						Transit in Bangkok
 2019年5月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌙 31 °C
 2019年5月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌙 31 °C
						6 hours in transit at the airport in Bangkok. Paid for access to a good quiet and comfortable lounge with nice champagne and ok food, and killed an hour having a foot, head and shouldersもっと詳しく
The Turkish Lounge
 2019年5月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌙 31 °C
 2019年5月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌙 31 °C
						
								The Turkish Lounge at Bangkok airport, a comfortable place to hang out.
Not the style of glass I normally drink champagne out of, but who cares it tastes great 😀
				
			
Tashkent public holiday
 2019年5月9日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
 2019年5月9日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
						
								Guess who arrived in Tashkent on Memorial Day, celebrating those who died in WWII 😣
There are still places open and I went to Independence Square to see some of the celebrations which wasもっと詳しく
Theatre night
 2019年5月10日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
 2019年5月10日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
						Believe it or not I went to Uzbekistan’s largest and most ornate theatre (built by the Soviets) and watched Aleko, an opera by Rachmaninov, just before going in I saw a guy who had been killed whenもっと詳しく
A day in Khiva
 2019年5月11日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
 2019年5月11日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
						
								Today I was up early and left the hotel at 6am to catch the 7:30 plane to Urgench then drive 40 minutes to Khiva, one of the stops on the Silk Road.
The old part of the city is still surrounded by aもっと詳しく
The trip to Nukus
 2019年5月12日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
 2019年5月12日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
						
								Up today for a 4 hour drive south to Nukus. Amazing there were a few spits of rain as we left Khiva but it was still a balmy 33degrees.
My driver was a teacher of Russian who also drives for tourists,もっと詳しく
Night by the Door of Hell
 2019年5月14日, トルクメニスタン ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
 2019年5月14日, トルクメニスタン ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
						After a short drive to the border the driver said goodbye and pointed toward the deserted border crossing . When I walked the 100 meters to the gate out of Uzbekistan I found a soldier hiding in hisもっと詳しく
A Day in Ashgabat
 2019年5月15日, トルクメニスタン ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
 2019年5月15日, トルクメニスタン ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
						Last night I walked around the area near the hotel and finally found a restaurant, on the way home I discovered that there are places I’m not allowed to go and key amongst these is anywhere within aもっと詳しく
Goodbye Turkmenistan
 2019年5月17日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
 2019年5月17日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
						
								Well I’m glad I visited as there were some interesting sights but when I reached Bukhara in Uzbekistan I actually felt as though I was back in comfortable territory.
Yesterday I visited the ruins ofもっと詳しく
Bukhara to Samarkand
 2019年5月19日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
 2019年5月19日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
						My day sightseeing in Bukhara was quite good, my guide was a retired lady who used to work at the museum there and spoke excellent English, she was proud to tel me that she was one of the guides forもっと詳しく
Sandarkan, Crossroads of the Silk Road
 2019年5月21日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
 2019年5月21日, ウズベキスタン ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
						Several days in this 2,700 year old city were spent looking at the many mausoleums that celebrate the lives of past nobles, I’m seriously over them, many have been well restored surprisingly oftenもっと詳しく
Thailand Diving
 2019年5月25日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
 2019年5月25日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
						It was an incredibly long trip to get here from Tashkent involving two plane flights, a bus ride for several hours, a wait for the ferry, then another hour wait for the speed boat/ferry before a shortもっと詳しく
Best Dive Ever
 2019年5月27日, タイ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
 2019年5月27日, タイ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
						Another wonderful couple of days diving and snorkeling have concluded with today’s dive where I was fortunate enough to have a Whale Shark pass not 2 meters from me, it was incredible as I have beenもっと詳しく

































































































