Overall thoughts – Accommodation – Travelling around – Things to do – Dinner and lunch Overall thoughts Brief: industrial, old, decaying, lively, colourful, lots of greenery, fascinating, real. PHOTO Nezavisimost Avenue, Oskemen Metallurg Park, from Nezavisimost Avenue, Oskemen. Yes, that is a plane in the park. Not so brief: I thought I would not like […]
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Accommodation – Overnight trains – City transport – Going to the post office – Beer – Horse meat, sheep’s head and fermented milk – Food – Souvenirs Accommodation If you enjoy varied and unpredictable accommodation, Kazakhstan is the place to go (as, I expect, is the case in many other former Soviet countries). Every hotel
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Abu Dhabi & Dubai – Lists and Practicalities In three words or phrases, Abu Dhabi (AD) first, then Dubai (D), in no particular order and not always 10 things to avoid stretching the truth when fewer things are worthy of being in a top 10 list. Most information relevant in 2017 and 2018. 10 food
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Just off Hauz Khas Road, 15A, next to State Bank of India and part of Big Fat Sandwich Flat white – IRP 120 (c£1.50) – 9.25 am on a Sunday and 10.15 am on a Tuesday in July 2017 (and subsequently over 2018 and 2019) The flat white: a proper, creamy, caffeiney flat white that
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Perch Wine & Coffee Bar, 71 Khan Market, New Delhi Flat white – IRP 150 (<£2 – house blend) or IRP 170 (>£2 – single origin) – 4pm Wednesday and 3pm Friday A thin, tight black roll neck, long hair tied back, a Gauloises burning on an ash tray, cool jazz playing, the distant chatter
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Dubai v London – how hipster coffee and warehouses don’t equate to a hipster ‘hood I gave up being a coffee-snob-in-denial after, “Turkish coffee, please”, resulted in a one-sachet-cappuccino followed swiftly, still nursing a burnt tongue and offended tastebuds, by a Google search for “hipster coffee Dubai”. Other than good Turkish and Arabic black unfiltered
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