Cycling about and finding a spot to camp, or chancing on the hospitality of strangers, is a real joy. It doesn’t always work out. Pushing my bike along rutted tracks one night last week, evading...Read More
Uzbek embassy official: “No more visa.” “But the three of us are travelling together.. Can you not just possibly not just issue just one more…” Long pause. “No. You...Read More
10 days from Tbilisi and memories of the way faded just a little in the heat and bureaucracy of Baku. First try at the Uzbek embassy failed. Closed for locals to sign a book of condolences for Preside...Read More