Elite Hotel Tashkent
Usuf Khos Khodjib Street 75/10 Tashkent, 700063, Uzbekistan
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Border Scrums
... wait for 1 hour while the official figures out what to do with the ever-growing mass of people. People start yelling at the official to let them through, he yells back but this just encourages the mass to start yelling out in unison. Finally he starts letting people trickle through. Of course this just starts a surge towards the gate which, if you aren’t careful, may put you on the ground. While in this throng you see another equally large mass of ...
Tashkent tales
... once , but must have gone 1 1/2 so came out at different spot, ended up in side area where all the woodwork was, cots, table legs getting turned, also metal ware, downpipes, kitchen utensils etc. Some narrow alleys near here , obviously residential, heard some music and could see it was further up alley, just listening & one of the woodworking men saw me listening & indicated I could go & look. It was a wedding. In front of the house the ...
Trials in Tashkent
... walked in just as they close for 1 hr for lunch, come back at 2 !
Thought I was in luck when I found an ATM , no they close for lunch too. Went back at 2 - no it is broken. Saw another bank, but most of them are bank offices & don"t deal with exchange, very nice bank man walked me to where I could get money in a shopping area nearby, looked like a cupboad door with a small sign, you go inside and there is a security guard sitting at a little ...
Train travel to Tashkent and 24hrs in the UK
... my book, continuing with a head torch until 8pm, until I’d had enough. So I sat up and people watched (they’re always walking up and down the carriage for all sorts of reasons) for an hour and then got my head down for probably the longest night’s sleep I’ve had in months!!!
Thursday 6 October 2011 – Tashkent
I got up at 8am having had 12 hours sleep (quite amazing – must be the rhythm of the train!) ...
Them old cotton fields back home
... zone) becoming one-tenth of its former size, with fishing boats beached for many kms away from the sea’s receded shores, the loss of all 20 species of fish & 20,000 tons of harvested fish a year, a deserted town due to 60,000 people moving away to find work and residues of chemicals used in the cotton fields, back in the sea. Salt levels have increased dramatically, along with increased rainless days (from a prior 35 to 150 today), salt, dust and ...



