by thadmin | Aug 5, 2025 | Tashkent, Travel, Uzbekistan
Day Four is blank. I managed to get food poisoning and did not take any photos. Heat stroke on top of that has been an issue as well. Routinely 40C during the day with it sometimes breaching 45C. Two weeks ago, before we arrived, it was generally 50C...
by thadmin | Aug 4, 2025 | Tashkent, Travel, Uzbekistan
So, we curtailed the day today. My issue. I think I have heat stroke. We did get out and walked a fair ways from our hotel, looking at things – street scenes, what shops are in the area, seeking tree-lined boulevards for shelter from the sun. We were nominally...
by thadmin | Aug 3, 2025 | Tashkent, Travel, Uzbekistan
We have met with a local ‘fixer’. We drew up an itinerary of our own last night and sent it on to Bekzog this morning. We met with him and he was amazing in his suggestions and alterations to our first-blush plans. We feel we are in good hands and await his revised...
by thadmin | Aug 2, 2025 | Tashkent, Travel, Uzbekistan
Harold and I did a lot of walking today – my preferred method of getting to know a city. But with a population cresting 6mill when including outer boroughs, walking will only get you so far. Plus it is the dry season here and very hot in direct sunlight –...
by thadmin | Oct 27, 2024 | Historical
Photos of Canadian Newsmen visiting the Front - WWI (1918) Click on the book cover above her to see the photographs. A selection of news reporters from a variety of newspapers across Canada were invited to tour the Alled Front in 1918, courtesy of Lord Beaverbrook. He...
