Saturday 3rd Aug, four of us shared a room (Gavin joined us), pretty crap place, no mattress, we may have been better off camping again, We were up at 06:00 and on the road by 06:30, good to get out of the place really. We did have a bit of a cash flow problem this morning we had 50,000 Soms, sounds a lot but about 5 quid! so we had to be a bit careful with our spending. The road was really good for the first 5 miles then we hit the bad roads again with a bit of a head wind. We stopped after about 20 miles, for water bread and some tomato stuff we had in are panniers, once again living the life. It was pretty tough going on with the road getting worse, just a matter of pushing through and enjoying the scenery (desert). We stopped again just after the 40 mile mark, we could only afford water, but Gavin did get us a snickers bar each, top man. I also manged to blag 2 bottles of ice water from the shop owner, once again top man. The ride was getting a bit harder as the day wore on, especially as we had not eaten very much. With the final 24 miles to go we stopped again, I tried to change 20 Euro note, but the Russian guy(truck driver) tried to rip us off,so we said no. Though I did blag another small bottle of ice water. On we went to Bukhara, we blew the rest of our money 10 miles out on 5 litres of water and a water melon, really good how little things please you. Rolled into Buhara, sorted an hotel out pretty quickly, Linney also sorted out the money and SIM card so hopefully we should be ok now, well as best we can.