Yearly Archives: 2017

Mary to Ashgabat

  We began our day with drive around the city viewing the sights and then a visit to the museum which had relics from Gonur and Merv. Gonur is a site north of Merv and these relics dating 5 and

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Buckhara to Mary Turkmenistan

  Left Bukhara with a group photo at the Madrassah. We had to find a spot where the cars could be lined up. Ian and I had driven Vulcan the night before and had photos in front of the minaret

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Bukhara

We headed off on a walking tour at 9am before the heat of the day. The old town had a lovely feeling about it and for the first time on the Silk Road one can imagine travellers stopping here in

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Yurt camp to Bukhara

  Today we left the camp at our usual departure time after breakfast and drove across the arid land once more. Of course I couldn’t resist the donkey carts carrying calves! We stopped at an old fort that was supposedly

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Henk and Maja's Eurasia Trip
Peter and Paula Return - Another Silk Road Shared

ART dream

Wine and more architecture

Wine and More Wine – OleBilbao OLD and NEW Monday dawned sunny and warm and we headed down to the Guggenheim Museum, even though it is closed we wanted to relish the slick titanium skin, contrasted against the smooth pale limestone blocks. Everything glistened in the bright morning sun, reflections of the curved surfaces bounced off the water surrounding the metal walls and the metallic sculptures in the forecourts around the Guggenheim. Did you know that every surface in the building is curved and there are no straight lines thus emphasising the organic flowing lines of this magnificent Frank Gehry masterpiece Tomorrow we’ll visit this amazing museum along with our Silk Road companions Pat and David who we are travelling with around Spain and Portugal in our trusty MGs. Hop on and off buses have always been a favourite and quick way of acquainting ourselves with a city. We cruised around the narrow streets enjoying the views from the top deck. We were diverted by police a few times into the back streets because of a rally of thousands of people marching along the main thoroughfare of the city. Red, white and Green flags and banners waving, fire crackers exploding, releasing clouds of smoke. How We hopped off a The Mercado de la Ribera one of the largest fresh food markets in Europe and we arrived just in time for some Pintxos which we enjoyed with a beer and Sangria. So many delicious sweet and savoury munchies to choose from – what a treat!

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