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Khiva to Bukhara. The government pay you? Otkuda, otkuda?!!
I left the hostel in Khiva at around 09:30 and no sooner had I left the inner city than the road once again tuned to absolute shit. It's...
Jamie Shannon
Sep 20, 201611 min read


Khiva - Marvellous, majestic and magical
Silk Road cities in Central Asia Khiva is a super small town and so it didn’t take me long at all to find the old historic part of the...
Jamie Shannon
Sep 16, 20163 min read


Nurkus to Khiva. Hmm, I guess he’s sleeping here with me then leaving his wife inside...
It would have been nice to cycle together with the three guys I had met but alas we all had different plans. Jess and Tim wanted to make...
Jamie Shannon
Sep 15, 20164 min read


Through Uzbekistan to Nurkus. Mr policeman: Difficult in England to find woman?
No sooner had I stepped out the other side of the border than a horde of black market money changers raced over to me. Their eye’s must...
Jamie Shannon
Sep 13, 20168 min read


Beyneu to Uzbekistan and the road of death!
After having stayed in the lovely cosmopolitan city that is Beyneu for two nights and getting, quite literally, eaten alive by the...
Jamie Shannon
Sep 12, 20166 min read


Aktau to Beyneu. Starry eyed nights in the steppe
Okay, just one more day I said to myself. Holed up in my cosy hotel room and knowing precisely what lay ahead of me filled me with just a...
Jamie Shannon
Sep 6, 201610 min read


A town called Aktau - not the kind of place to vacation
Wednesday 1st September I made it to Kazakhstan. That’s something I was never quite sure I’d hear myself saying. What an awesome feeling....
Jamie Shannon
Aug 31, 20164 min read


Across the Caspian Sea. Give me my Uzbek visa!
Well I finally find myself aboard my rusting cargo ship crossing the Caspian Sea, and to be perfectly honest, it’s all gone worryingly...
Jamie Shannon
Aug 29, 20169 min read


Cycle touring through Azerbaijan
The border was fairly straight forward. It was pretty empty to be honest with only soldiers walking around with, well not much else to...
Jamie Shannon
Aug 25, 201611 min read


Tbilisi to Azerbaijan. The land of the Lada
I received my visa! I crossed the border! I arrived in bloody Baku and the end of my journey across land! As you can imagine – I’m a...
Jamie Shannon
Aug 23, 20167 min read


Waiting around in Tbilisi as the days tick on by. Please give me a visa
Friday 12th August Eight days have now passed since I first came to Tbilisi. Time is ticking away and it feels like I’m no closer now to...
Jamie Shannon
Aug 12, 20165 min read


Georgia: See, is good, drink. Me: too dangerous. I get hit, I die. Big problem. End of trip
I left Batumi with my stove kind of fixed by a Georgian man whom didn’t release a smile in the entire forty minutes I was stood in his...
Jamie Shannon
Aug 10, 201610 min read


An update from Tbilisi, Georgia
Well I’ve been in Tbilisi, Georgia for five days now nibbling on my nails and generally sat on the edge of my seat continuously pressing...
Jamie Shannon
Aug 8, 20162 min read


A new country at last! Enter Georgia. I finally got my potatoes
I’m now in Batumi and have been for four days now. I always seem to get stuck in cities you see. I’m going to leave today and it’s a...
Jamie Shannon
Jul 30, 20168 min read


Still the Black Sea. Being gifted my own Galatasaray shirt and a free haircut - Turkish style
From Inebolu, I still had a fair way to go until Sinop was reached and with it, the start of a much more forgiving road. I was on my way...
Jamie Shannon
Jul 27, 201610 min read
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