So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu…<\/p>\n
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')..<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n