Icing the perfect cake…..
Equipment:
- One long and thin rectangular sponge cake
- Portion of soft icing of your choice
- Icing knife
- Teaspoon
- Sugar granules
- Edible silver baubles
- Black food colouring
- Icing sugar
- Liquor
Month: September 2016 (Page 1 of 3)
“The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors” –Â Melissandra – Game of Thrones
A heinous man, not four feet tall, approaches the car. His long pointed noise, crooked and bent, sniffs the cool night air like a hungry wolf. Greasy long blond hair lies in knotted strands down his hunched back. Black beady eyes peer through the open window and settle menacingly on my sleeping pale flesh. Suddenly he thrusts his hand through the open car window and grabs me: I wake with a start. I scream but no sound emerges from my mouth. I shout for Captain but no sound emerges from my mouth. Even my fast heaving breath makes not a ripple in the still night air. There is nothing but silence…..
Yesterday we left Kazakhstan and entered Kyrgyzstan. Here’s the route we took during the second half of our stay.
[For all you stat fans: We travelled 1464km and smashed our previous height record by hitting 3297m]
Now that we have been travelling for nearly three months we thought we’d both have a think about each of our three highlights so far. We didn’t confer on these and left the brief open. Interesting, I think, that most of these aren’t ‘tourist attractions’ or actual places we have visited but more a general sense of living so close to nature.
By the way being with me was Captain’s #4 đŸ˜‰
Our camp spot at Altyn-Emel national park
Charyn Canyon by night
Driving through road works – the Chinese are currently building lots of roads through Kazakhstan to enable easy access by road to Europe.
Friday 15th September – 8.27pm – Charyn Canon, Kazakhstan
“I’ve never been so happy in my life.”
“You’re drunk on wine.”
“No I’m drunk on life.”
“Oh you big fat hippy.”
I’m writing this with our Uzbekistan visas proudly displayed in our passports; so I’m now free to write about the long procedure we had to go through to get it. No possibility of a jinx đŸ˜‰
Firstly one has to fill in an online form with your details and print off two copies together with two printouts of the photo page in your passport and also provide two passport photos. You then take all of this to the embassy. Easy enough I hear you chorus……
Driving into the old capital of Almaty after dark was an amazing experience (for me at least) as I got to gaze outside the window at all the sights. The fringes of the city are lined with kebab stalls, fruit markets, small shops and restaurants. Both cars and people mill around in amongst the swirls of smoke coming from the barbecues. In the dark the neon and strip lights also dance in the clouds of smoke creating a scene not dissimilar to a 70’s disco.
The metropolis of Almaty
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