Old Soviet Steam locomotive. The exhibits are freshly painted but otherwise in a poor state of preservation. Al valuable metals (brass, copper, etc) has been removed.
Methuselah On The Move - Update 3 (Tashkent) August 30th 2013 Friday 30 Aug.
Just starting the second full day in Tashkent. Had breakfast and now waiting for three Kiwis to arrive and then we'll head off to the markets. As today is Friday I don't know what will or won't be open. Friday is the main prayer day in the Islamic week.
Yesterday spent most of the day out. Went to the Uzbekistan Museum of Railway Technology (also known as just The ... read more
Asia » Uzbekistan » Tashkent Russia conquered Uzbekistan in the late 19th century. Stiff resistance to the Red Army after World War I was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic set up in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of "white gold" (cotton) and grain... ... read more
A grumpy old man who got the travel bug late in life. I now like to go to unusual and exotic places. Have visited Vietnam (3 times - first trip in 1971 but it doesn't count, since then visited again twice - in 2003 with Carol and 2008 with the "almostnomads"), Europe 1976, New Zealand 1982, Malaysia (five ties), Singapore (eight times), Turkey 2011, Jordan 2011 (took part in an archaeological dig at Pella), US North East + California as well as Eastern Canada in 2009, US West Coast and Western Canada 2011, China 2010, Borneo 2012 - that's where I had an altercation with a motor cycle and te... full info