I’m sitting in a cafe in Istanbul having toast and coffee; a late 2nd breakfast. I spent the morning working at getting my business up and running again as it’s been in mothballs for the past few months. It’s raining and chilly but I’m happy about this. It’ll help me[…]
When I returned from the World Nomad Games to Bishkek, I saw a notice pinned to the front desk of the hostel inviting those joining the Oasis Overland expedition to meet the next day, the wool 5th, at 6pm, for an introductory meeting. The hostel was the Kyrgyzstan meeting point[…]
I’m almost a fortnight on the road now. Days are blurring together and the only container of my experience is not time but place. There was Helsinki, then Astana, then Almaty and now Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan with an overnight stay at the World Nomad Games at Cholpon-Ata in Issyk-Kul area.[…]
At last, after years of planning and following one failed, or aborted, attempt, I finally arrived in Almaty and hit the Silk Road. Woohoo. It feels very different to Astana and has that delightful air of chaos I know from being in Asia in the past. It invites you to[…]
Friday 24th November – Astana Main process today has been travelling from Helsinki to Astana, arriving and travelling around Astana. The flight was uneventful. The plane, a Finnair one, was half empty. Whew, I was worried it might be half full. It left right on time at 9.25pm Helsinki time.[…]
The wheel starts turning. My journey to the Silk Road has started. At last, a real blog about where I am and where I just was, as opposed to fake blogs about where I hadn’t gone yet but wanted to go. Maybe fake is a it too unkind, a bit[…]
I promised in my last post to write a more detailed report on the places I will be travelling to. Here it is! These steps and stops along the way are both Brief and Detailed overviews of my itineraries, outlining my day to day travelling on Oasis Overland Expedition truck. I[…]
You know what the say about the best laid plans of mice and men. By the way, what exactly do they say about the best laid plans of mice and men? I can’t quite remember. Well, my plans have changed completely since I last wrote here a short while ago.[…]
It’s been awhile since I posted anything here as I’ve been caught up with work and especially that GDPR brain scrambling shiteology. I’ve decided that GDPR stands for God Damn Poxy Rubbish and moved on. So, where am I on planning my trip? When will I be joining the road[…]
The fact that I managed to maintain a love of poetry from childhood is a miracle, given the excretable teaching methods and violent delivery of my childhood schooling. But love it I did; and do to this day. I still remember the frisson of delight I experienced when I read[…]
Technobabble time. I love technology and have been an early adopter of internet related thingys for yonks. I got my first real computer in 1987 and a modem a year later. I bought the modem at an auction in London for £100. It was a huge metal box and ran[…]
This is just a brief overview of my travelling plans on The Silk Road for later on this year. If you managed to get to the end of my last blog, congratulations, you deserve a medal. In it, I was talking about how I’m still in the process of formulating[…]
