So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu…
Yes – the day has come when lucky Janine and I are off to Uzbekistan. Yes – through our own choice. (Well, mine to be fair on J, talk about her 'taking one for the team')..
So – blog-a-log silence from me till we get back next weekend – unless one of us has been stolen for a harem/sold for a camel/imprisoned in a dusty muezzin/left in a yurt/betrothed to a shaggy yak etc etc – all the joys of Central Asia in a nutshell.
Wish us luck! And roll on my first dinner of oily fatty mutton 'plov' – the wondrous national greasy rice 'n' meat dish of the Uzbeks x