The Team Slightly Lost Blog
Just some small insights to the trips we have undertaken raising awareness as we go
Early the next morning we were woken by the Mischief guys packing up. They wanted to get back on the road to the next town so they could hopefully get some parts for their Polo.
When first entering a country you never know what to expect. The media in the west has an amazing knack of portraying countries around the middle east in a less favourable light. Common sense tells you to ignore half of what
Frank had heard from his team earlier in the morning. They had stayed at some hotel which sounded worse than camping in a rubbish tip & were grabbing breakfast whilst they waited for us to get through the border. We
The final hurdle before leaving Uzbekistan was ahead of us; The Border. We had no idea how our exit was going to go. We entered the border compound & pulled up in front of a building. We walked into the
Next on our route was Kyrgyzstan. Our original plans had us going through Kyrgyzstan but after entering Uzbekistan we were going to head straight to Kazakhstan. As we had picked Frank up we were now back going to Kyrgyzstan again.
A couple of hours later we were in Tashkent, a big brawling city with large main roads & tiny side streets. Frank had given us the address of the hostel but maps.me didn’t have the road. We ended up heading
The next day we left Tashkent to head for the Kyrgyzstan border. We didn’t know it yet but our half day drive to the border was about to be one of the most irritating so far. The mood & the
We headed out of the narrow streets of Bukhara towards Tashkent. Somehow, John thought we would make it to Tashkent late at night if we just kept driving. I wasn’t so convinced. With my poor navigation skills & Minty’s poor
It was dark by the time we were released from the border crossing. The crossing had closed hours before & the military staff at the gate were a bit bewildered to see us. We didn’t care, all we wanted to
