Some random thoughts on the places we have visited:
China: Smog, cranes, brand new cities for 8,000,000 people. Staggering new infrastructure. World domination but a moment away.
Mongolia: Vast. Empty. Outrageously gorgeous. Freezing. Fur hats. Unimog. Yurts. Deep blue skies and a night time skyscape of 456893trillion stars falling on our heads. My worries about how China is about to plunder it. Camping when it was -12C that's 10.3 F for you Americans.
Russia: Did we go? Does 2 hours in a 'rent by the hour' hotel count? Fabulous friendship and helpfulness from the' Siberian Old Timer's'. A dash to the Kazak border in a truck that went the wrong way.
Kazakhstan: Borat villages. The most expensive hotel in the universe. An incarnation of the angel of mercy appearing at Almaty airport in the form of George Winton Harding bearing gifts of a new gear box and 70kgs of car parts. Dust. Brown. Gold teeth. The plane of shame. 2 hours sleep in a field. Two extra husbands.
Uzbekistan: Wonderful, friendly, smiley people. Cotton fields. Samarkand. Colour. Fab hats. HUGE melons. Currency measured in inches. A revelation - want to go back.
Turkmenistan: White marble. Bugged rooms. Insane architecture. Free petrol, well almost. Soldiers in very suspect hats. Sinister.
Iran: Amazing welcome. Curiosity. Black widows. Menacing.
Turkey: Rain, snow. Paddy Walker's breakout group. A perfect day in Istanbul. Aya Sofya. Cabbages the size of giant pumpkins. Seeing Mount Ararat.
Greece: Rain laden skies. Scruffy. The vast sums of EU money spent on empty roads.
Italy: Passed us by really. Been before, saw it then.
France: French. The finish. Phew.
China: Smog, cranes, brand new cities for 8,000,000 people. Staggering new infrastructure. World domination but a moment away.
Mongolia: Vast. Empty. Outrageously gorgeous. Freezing. Fur hats. Unimog. Yurts. Deep blue skies and a night time skyscape of 456893trillion stars falling on our heads. My worries about how China is about to plunder it. Camping when it was -12C that's 10.3 F for you Americans.
Russia: Did we go? Does 2 hours in a 'rent by the hour' hotel count? Fabulous friendship and helpfulness from the' Siberian Old Timer's'. A dash to the Kazak border in a truck that went the wrong way.
Kazakhstan: Borat villages. The most expensive hotel in the universe. An incarnation of the angel of mercy appearing at Almaty airport in the form of George Winton Harding bearing gifts of a new gear box and 70kgs of car parts. Dust. Brown. Gold teeth. The plane of shame. 2 hours sleep in a field. Two extra husbands.
Uzbekistan: Wonderful, friendly, smiley people. Cotton fields. Samarkand. Colour. Fab hats. HUGE melons. Currency measured in inches. A revelation - want to go back.
Turkmenistan: White marble. Bugged rooms. Insane architecture. Free petrol, well almost. Soldiers in very suspect hats. Sinister.
Iran: Amazing welcome. Curiosity. Black widows. Menacing.
Turkey: Rain, snow. Paddy Walker's breakout group. A perfect day in Istanbul. Aya Sofya. Cabbages the size of giant pumpkins. Seeing Mount Ararat.
Greece: Rain laden skies. Scruffy. The vast sums of EU money spent on empty roads.
Italy: Passed us by really. Been before, saw it then.
France: French. The finish. Phew.
Very nearly there,congratulations to you & car 29. May you thoroughly enjoy your arrival in Paris,hope the fuel crisis doesn't mean a final push! What an amazing adventure,thankyou for sharing it with us- WOW! My early mornings will be very dull now! We wish you a safe drive home,we think candles before lettuces! Back for Sunday's Autumn Amble?!
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