If you know me  or follow this blog, you will know that I’m mildly obsessed with hula hooping. Not just spinning hoops around my waist,...

Khiva - Bukhara - Samarkand - Tashkent - Chimgan 685 miles, (plus about 2000 metres high) Well, clearly I am not going to keep up with...

Aktau - Beyneu - Nukus - Khiva - 681 miles It was around midday by the time we arrived in Aktau - a soviet built town in the desert on...

Batumi - Tblisi - Baku - Alat - Kuryk - Aktau - 906 miles Our bus journey from Batumi to Tblisi was not the most comfortable - a...