Dublin Event

Horse and Nose Redux:

Trimdon Twilight (Atton, Moffoot)

gets a public outing

NCH Dublin 17th November 2009

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Uzbekistan 2009

http://www.amoffoot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/travel2009.html

Tashkent -

Post-Russian concrete looking on arrival but surprisingly green, and metropolitan.

Samarkand -

Edinburgh equivalent, manageable size, vistas, extraordinary mediaeval architecture.

Qulqishloq -

10,000 population, but where on Google Earth is it? Turn left off the Tashkent highway.

Bukhara -

The most exotic, an oasis city of sand and sandstone.

The countryside -

From the train a dusty, scrubby plateau with vague buildings on the horizon. Looked shabbier than it really is due to the dust, in the Spring would resemble Lincolnshire.

An Emirate in all but name -

5000 "political" prisoners, secret police, torture, massacres (Andijan), Soviet-oldstyle micro-management of movement. However, all despots die eventually and most of the new-build is attractive. YouTube will cure all.

A young population -

Literate, smart youngsters with hardly a headscarf.