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BUKHARA – UZBEKISTAN (#2)
21/11/23 – 24/11/23 After a hefty breakfast, I headed out to meet with my friend Sabrina and her sister, Parvina. We met up at a coffee shop not far from the old town, and had a lovely time catching up. Sabrina headed off to university, but Parvina and I had something else planned for her…
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TASHKENT – UZBEKISTAN (#2)
20/11/23 After a quick shower and breakfast, I checked out of Hotel Sharq and headed for the airport. Dushanbe Airport is a classic Soviet-style airport, with a few vendors open selling coffee and soft drinks, and a large duty-free shop. By some stroke of luck, on the same flight to Tashkent as me was an…
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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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