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I am Stephen. I was born in Dublin, Ireland, I now live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands since 2003. I love cooking, travel and learning new languages.

Asia Tour 2026 - Day 17/25 - 26th August - Almaty, Kazakhstan - City 10/15 - Country 6/9

At the mall Basically we had salad and bread for breakfast. We left cash behind for payment in the apartment and went for coffee at a place close-by. Recharged after the coffee we went to the MegaPark shopping mall where I splurged and bought 3 bottles of Kazakh wine. I also went to a Turkish cooking shop and got a baking tin which was patterned, it was meant for cakes but I will use it for bread. The guy serving us was from China, an Uyghur and he took out his phone and film

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Asia Tour 2026 - Day 16/25 - 25th August - Almaty, Kazakhstan - City 11/15 - Country 6/9

Bus to Almaty Breakfast time again, I love breakfast made to order! This time I had the "fried eggs with vegetables" that turned out to be an omelette with vegetables, it was okay, edible. On the bus We ordered a taxi to the bus station which was completely full with tourists, up to this point I had not seen so many tourists at all. It was only 11km to the border and we arrived to see a huge cue of all kinds of vehicles waiting to be checked through. On the bus we already mad

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Asia Tour 2026 - Day 10/25 - 19th August - Dushanbe, Tajikistan - City 7/15 - Country 5/9

Sunrise at the border At around 03:00 the sun was coming up and one of the guards knocked on the door and we handed over our passports as we were at the border. Lots of Uzbek guards got on board to ask us questions and finally gave our passports back with the exit stamps. Dushanbe Station As we arrived into Dushanbe it looked like a city from India to me, lots of rubbish everywhere and poverty, kids in rags, small semi-derelict houses that were lived in and these gave way to

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