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Arrival in Istanbul
Another painfully early start to the trip - why are we making a habit of this??? Anyhoo, got to Istanbul without fuss and were quickly overawed by the city with an official population of 15 million, but an unofficial, more accurate, population estimate of 20 million. Either way, loads of Turks. Now, a slight administrative thing, you may notice the …
The Tour commences...
Despite some issues with buses and mini-buses, and not much English being spoken, we arrived back in Istanbul in time to meet up with our Intrpid Tour group to commence the 15-day 'Turkish Delights' (genius!) tour. The group consisted of 6 under-30's, and 6 over-65's. Aussies, Kiwis and a couple of token Canadians. First meeting and dinner with the …
Istanbul (Intrepid tour)
ISTANBUL: Day 1: My flight Duabi to Istanbul was on a newer Emirates plane and that made all the difference. A very enjoyable flight. When I arrived at Istanbul airport there was a massive line for the passport control. 40 minutes later when I arrived at the desk, the guy flicked through my passport and said "You buy visa" and pointed further along …
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
... school...
I think we mentioned in our previous blog about an English Club we have set up using the Church building. This is for anyone who wants to come along one evening a fortnight and improve their English. The club is going really well - we had two people at our first meeting, five at the next and eleven at the latest one! We don't want it to get too much bigger actually as we only have a small team to help run it. It is great fun, though! And we ...
Özbekistan
... through all the motions of any other capital cities, minus the autonomy. Though Özbekistan uses the Latin alphabet, unlike Qazaqstan and Kyrgyzstan, which use the Cyrillic alphabets, the change to the Latin is not complete in Qaraqalpaqstan, so much of the propaganda there was in Cyrillic. After some atrocious local food it was time to head to Türkmenistan.
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