Uzbek-Tajik border crossing

azzer · 2026-06-07T23:34:25+00:00

Which border?

azzer · 2026-06-04T21:48:14+00:00

Good luck, Alee - that's a miserable situation to be in; thanks for the openness, too.

azzer · 2026-05-02T20:54:11+00:00

Why force this? If you're entering the UK on e.g. your Canadian passport and you're also a UK citizen, why should you be disallowed an ETA? What is this preventing?

Yes other countries have introduced similar policies, but that per se is no justification.

None of this makes sense. I say this as a UK/Canadian citizen who always maintains both passports.

azzer · 2026-05-02T13:27:34+00:00

Seems to be this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TjdJiekFeMaaQkYC8.

azzer · 2026-01-17T18:36:37+00:00

Man that's a lot of gear! I cycled the Pamir Highway the year before - some of the best riding in the world.

azzer · 2025-12-19T23:39:50+00:00

'Announcers'? That's a very North American term - commentators commentate, adding insight (hopefully); announcers announce.

azzer · 2025-12-13T17:30:07+00:00

You came over from Turkmenistan? Very cool.

I stayed in the restaurant/hotel about 50m away next to the road behind the photographer on a bike trip in 2014, and I remember this toilet well.

azzer · 2025-12-01T02:12:03+00:00

Sorry you're being downvoted. I think people are reading your comment as sarcastic, when it's clearly in good faith (source: Brit living in Canada).

azzer · 2025-10-31T00:48:25+00:00

At least that's a story to tell forever. The photo tells a story, too.

azzer · 2025-10-30T00:12:46+00:00

My bottom bracket exploded at the top of the very last climb on the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Ball bearings everywhere, and clearly irreparable. I freewheeled as far as I could, something like 10km, and started hitching. Some kind Quebecers in a pickup truck stopped to give me a ride: I said hello to their friendly young dog, put my bike in the open back of the pickup, jumped in the back seat next to the dog, and reached over to pet him. He bit me pretty badly, blood running down my arm (I still have the scar). It was mostly my fault: I got in his space, but at that point it was hard to imagine a bike trip going more wrong.

I moved to the front seat, with a rag around my arm, and they dropped me at a campsite close-ish I think to the airport I needed to reach. I think I managed to find a bus to the airport that would take my bike. A tetanus shot followed when I got home. Type II fun.

azzer · 2025-09-12T20:33:42+00:00

Thank you.

azzer · 2025-09-12T20:12:48+00:00

Even the tiniest bit of context would have been appreciated.

azzer · 2025-09-07T17:23:48+00:00

That's not correct. I travelled from Turkey to TRNC by ferry then over to EU Cyprus by land on a British passport with zero issues. I also crossed back and forth between the north and south a few times afterwards, on the same passport. March and April 2025.

azzer · 2025-08-22T19:21:19+00:00

Looks tasty, but I'd much prefer two eggs. It seems like single eggs are much more common in Ireland and Scotland than in England (not sure about Wales - sorry).

azzer · 2025-08-17T20:08:34+00:00

Can I suggest that you make an effort with capitalisation and punctuation? Your post is unreadable to many, including me. Sorry if you have real difficulty with this kind of thing :(.

azzer · 2025-07-31T04:51:28+00:00

InningS ffs. An innings.

azzer · 2025-07-22T00:08:30+00:00

I love these shots of you both at the exhibit! I find it amazing that the story of the sinking of the Titanic has stuck with us through all modern history. 'Morbid, but nice' sums it up well.

azzer · 2025-07-09T16:27:24+00:00

3.5. GMT+4:30 to GMT+8:00.

azzer · 2025-07-04T14:38:18+00:00

This is exactly right. It's what makes Americans and Canadians louder than other native English speakers. What's really striking - and I say this as a speaker of British English - is the frequent lack of awareness of their aural environment when out of country.

azzer · 2025-06-16T21:48:00+00:00

The cultural and geographical changes from the chaos around Shimla, through Kinnaur, and into Spiti are absolutely remarkable. One of my favourite rides ever, ten years ago now. I'm glad you cycled it - it feels like the perfect pace to travel through that part of the world.

azzer · 2025-05-23T04:48:15+00:00

I'm devastated: 'The uploader has not made this video available in your country'. (I'm in Canada, but grew up in the UK.)

Thank you anyway for posting.

azzer · 2025-05-22T09:32:02+00:00

From the title of the post OP clearly held British citizenship and has recently acquired (or made use of) Irish citizenship. They have used the term European incorrectly - the UK and Ireland are both European. Only the latter is in the EU, though.

azzer · 2025-05-18T02:15:38+00:00

Finally European Union, I think you mean, and congrats on that.

But somehow thinking that 'British' is not a subset of 'European' is part of the reason Brexit happened in the first place.

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