Back in the year 2002, dear kids, there were no blogs, at least not to the same excess as now. There were special cafes, where you could access the internet, not via smartphone or wifi but with a computer that was installed there. Back in 2002, I had a diary made of paper, in which [...]
I've been wearing them almost every day for ten months straight, no matter if I was horse trekking in Mongolia, on a glacier expedition in Kyrgyzstan or on a desert tour in Uzbekistan. My Fjällräven Barents G-1000 never let me down. Before the trip, I bought it in a shop for hunting gear and I [...]
"Where the f** is Karakalpakstan?" I wonder when I hear about it the first time. It doesn't have anything to do with Pakistan, the country. Wikipedia explains: "Karakalpakstan is an autonomous republic at the northwestern end of Uzbekistan. It has an area of 160,000 square kilometres (62,000 sq mi) and a population of about 1.7 Million. The [...]