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DUSHANBE – TAJIKISTAN

18/11/23 – 20/11/23 This morning, I got up at around 5:30, packed my bits and pieces away, and took a Yandex to the airport for my 8am flight to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. I’d been reading quite a bit about the Tajiki Civil War, which had broken out upon the dissolution of the Soviet…
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SEOUL – SOUTH KOREA

15/11/23 – 17/11/23 No qualms about the AirAsia flight, everything ran smoothly, and I’d pre-ordered a nasi lemak for $7 which I thought, compared to airport pricing, was pretty good. We landed on time at klia2, which I found to be much better stocked and maintained than the main terminal at KLIA. Given I had…
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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#2)

22/7/23 – 23/7/23 Thanks to my British passport, I can get visa-free entry into Turkey, saving me the $90 e-Visa fee I had to pay last time when I only had my Australian one! After navigating through the long, Uzbek-filled immigration queue (flights from Samarkand and Tashkent had both arrived within 30 minutes of each…
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SOFIA – BULGARIA

21/7/2023 – 22/7/2023 A flight delay meant that I eventually landed in Sofia Airport just a touch after midnight, narrowly missing the last metro train into the city. Taxi it is, then! Luckily, this didn’t set me back too much! Bulgaria’s currency, the lev, is pegged at just under 2 to 1 with the Euro,…
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NAPOLI – ITALY

20/7/23 Getting from Nice, in the south of France, to Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, proved to be an interesting exercise in lacing together flights from two of Europe’s prominent ultra-low cost carriers, Ryanair and EasyJet. What it created, however, was an opportunity for me to spend a day in Naples, and a perfect chance to stuff…
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KASHAN – IRAN

9/7/2023 – 10/7/2023 Our final full day in Iran began with breakfast at the Seterah Hotel before jumping into the car and heading towards Tehran. Before we would get there though, we had a stop to make, in the town of Kashan. Kashan is probably most famous nowadays for the Fin Garden, a traditional Persian…
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ISFAHAN – IRAN

7/7/2023 – 9/7/2023 Despite intending to get up early in order to get ourselves sorted, we both managed to sleep in! I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower at about 8am, feeling the effects of the heavy travel schedule. Dad took a little bit longer, his neck still playing up, but eventually…

