**SMS update 13**

Left at 17th August 2009 at 07:40

Recieved by SMS (Location: Samarkand - Uzbekistan)

leaving town after a most hospitable stay where we dined in a local very ornate 19th c silk rd merchants house. Then vodka with the most sound italians you could meet. Slept on the roof terrace where it was actually cool! Off past tashkent today then the mountains of kyrgyzstan tomorrow. X @