Tag: Silk Road
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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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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…
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SHIRAZ – IRAN
4/7/23 – 5/7/23 After a decent night’s sleep in Arg Hotel’s incredibly hard mattresses (great for supporting your back!), and a quick breakfast at the hotel – tomato omelette for me, an Iranian lentil dish for Dad – and we were off to our first stop of the day, the Pink Mosque. Named for the…
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TEHRAN – IRAN
2/7/2023 – 3/7/2023 Well, today was pretty uneventful! After getting back to Dave Hotel at close to midnight, we knew we only had about an hour and a half before we’d need to head to the airport. After a quick shower, our bags were packed, and we were half asleep on the beds ready to…
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YEREVAN – ARMENIA
29/6/23 – 2/7/23 Today, we were heading across the border, and making our way south to Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. There is a train that does this journey, but it takes something like 13 hours overnight, and only operates on alternating days, and the journey by road only took about 6 hours total.…
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TBILISI – GEORGIA
26/6/2023 – 29/6/2023 No time for breakfast today! We’ve got an early-ish flight to Tbilisi, so instead of breakfast, we’re in a taxi, headed to the airport! After arriving at Terminal 1, where we thought we were flying from, we ended up having to walk 50 metres over to Terminal 2, which despite the short…
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