Thursday 30 September 2010

Day 21 - to the beautiful Samarkand

One assumes that today is another uneventful day.   I hope that Clive and Ces are not staying in an Intercontinental Hotel again tonight because, if they are, they'll be bored as usual.   And that would mean bored all day tomorrow as well since it's another rest day.   However, my guess is that they're in a very average hotel since we've heard nothing over the wires.

We might hear some news tomorrow if Clive can find an internet connection.   How hard can that be?   After all, Samarkand was where the very first paper mill (outside China) was built in the 8th century.   So it's not exactly nowhere.


Not a bad place for a RestDay ... I wonder if Clive and Ces will go out and explore.

Clive has some work to do on the car to sort out the wobble.   He had given his spare king-pins to another car who couldn't continue without them.   That other car, in turn, had loaned his spare set to the race leader.    Apparently the whole topic was getting a little sensitive and political until bad luck intervened in a good natured sort of way.    The bad luck was that Clive's king-pins did not fit the other car, and the good natured outcome was that the king-pins were returned to Clive.   Conveniently, for Clive, any sensitive politics would now only be between that other car and the race leader.   Phew!!

Otherwise, a set would have had to be couriered to Iran.

And we thought that this was just a whole group of pals having a jolly good romp across Asia.

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