After checking out of our hotel we caught a marshrutka to the bus station. On the way we asked a guy named Babal where to get off, and he accompanied us to the ticket office, helped us buy our ticket, got us on our bus, and then happily wandered back to the street to continue what he had originally planned to do. It's such helpful people like Babal who make travelling such a joy.
On the bus to Shymkent we both managed to get some sleep and 3 hours later woke up in a new city - a very dusty city at that!! Through some luck (and help from a friendly bus conductor) we managed to catch 2 buses to drop us outside the hotel Sian and Jack had recommended for us, and soon we were settled into our (expensive) hotel!
Delighted by the fact we had English news on TV we lazily spent a couple of hours watching TV before venturing out for dinner. Liv hasn't had much luck at all lately with her food, so was extremely pleased to find vegetarian pizza on the menu at a Turkish restaurant - ahh, the small things in life!
After some internet time we headed 'home' to our air-con(!) room for sleep.
Adlibing some English news!
Friday, August 29, 2008
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