Sunday 3rd October
Turkmenistan desert is very different to the Gobi lots of tufted grass and sand dunes. Pretty good tarmac roads and then sudden huge potholes so you have to watch the road all the time. We hit a bad one and heard a crash so stopped and got out to inspect damage, we couldn’t find any so looked under the car to see liquid pouring out of somewhere-help we thought it was the oil sump but discovered it was the radiator overflow that had erupted. Got out the bucket and collected it, opened the radiator, slowly and more came out of the cap! Two friendly Turkmen men had stopped to help us as we duly returned the collected water back into the rad and topped it up with more. They then asked for Suzy’s phone number and she pointed to her wedding ring and said she was married so they asked about Rachel! Had to disappoint them again and say goodbye! Eventually got to Ashgabat which is completely newly built having been flattened by earthquakes many times and our hotel is in an extraordinary boulevard of white Italian marble edifices which all look completely empty!
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