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Hi everyone its Toppy here.
Floppy has just gone into what i can only describe as a stairwell for a multi storey car park with a tall, thin Russian girl, who played the Z-cars music as she walked! So I have found an internet cafe and thought i would update all our friends on our progress so far. I just hope the ZX Spectrum i am using holds out!
We arrived at Tashkent International via Zurich on our Swiss Air flight yesterday and despite Floppy taking ages to get through Passport control and having his inflatable football clappers confiscated, we took the subway to our Hotel.
Formula One - Tashkent 9(see photo) is very comfortable and i am on the top bunk as usual, although i am not sure what people have been putting down the sink. Apparently the hotel used to be an old prisoner of war camp and it is very similar to the F1 in Liverpool! Fortunately there is no toilet in the room, which at first you may think is bad but when you've been to the Bertha Dittmans, its a blessing in disguise!!
Floppy managed to blag us some day passes for the Trolley bus that operates around the city. We are going to use them tomorrow and will be sure to take lots of photo's so you can enjoy them and share our experience!
On Friday we are meeting up with Lena's Uncle Yuri who owns a farm in the South of the country, he has promised to take us for a flight in his crop sprayer over his land. His farm borders Afghanistan and hopefully he won't deviate to far from the flight plan!! You wouldn't think there would be a big demand for poppies in Uzbekistan but he says he sells loads! We are going to ask Yuri to take a photo of us in the plane, hopefully he will hold the camera the right way (unlike Lena).
The drink of choice here seems to be green tea but the way i felt this morning, i think someone had slipt half a bottle of Vodka in my mug! Still its only 1,000 Uzbeki Sum per gallon (40p)-bargain, best place we have visited so far, even if i do feel like S***.
We hope to get some tickets for the Tashkent Derby on Saturtag, Its Qururchi Tashkent versus Traktor Tashkent. Due to the agricultural football Everton play i am sure Flops will be supporting TRAKTOR Tashkent. He told me he used to play with Pavel Solomin at Hale under 9's.
Oh dear, about 20 Riot Police have gone passed the cafe window towards the multi storey car park, think this is a case of de ja vu from Frankfurt!
Happy days. Going to log off now and get me a bowl of Plov.
Over and out Toppy
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