"For lust of knowing what should not be known We take the golden road to Samarkand" Well James Elroy Flecker never got to Samarkand, but I did. Not by the golden road, but by the much more prosaic and definitely more comfortable bullet train. … [Read more...]
Tashkent trivia
May 3, 2014 by · 9 Comments
Tashkent holds surprises for those of us who had ill-informed preconceptions. The city was held to be the fourth most important city of the Soviet, so benefitted enormously when rebuilt after the earthquake of 1966. The new city shares … [Read more...]
