Monday 5th August "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" After a trip into the city of Navoy last night to get the dollars to pay for the hotel, the manager arranged the lift he really wanted us to stay at his place. We eat adjacent to the hotel in a bar restaurant pretty good food, with just a little stroll back. It was good to have some good quality WIFI, so we all made good use of it. With breakfast at 7, we were all ready to roll, by 7:30, we got out of the city pretty quickly soon on the highway to Samarkand, though we were unsure if we would go all the way today as it depends on are planned spares delivery. We knew they were in Uzbekistan but not sure where. We had a little stop at 20 for a cup of tea, then rode on against an ever increasing wind, stopped for a bowl of Yak soup and tea for lunch. Still no news on the delivery so we just took it easy until the 80 mile mark. We had another bowl of better soup, bread and chips washed down with a couple of cold beers. Then on to the fun, there was a possibility of a hotel about a mile away. So we went for it, as we turned into the lane all the fruit pickers made a big fuss of Linney, he just rode through smiling. We come to some big gates, which the gatekeeper let us through, then on into the grounds, through a vine covered avenue all very weird. One guy stopped me and asked what we wanted when I said a room, he seemed to understand. He took us inside, we all looked at each other, some sort of hospital /asylum. The guy in charge said it was not a hotel, but we could stay. He instructed Jack Nickluson to take us to another building. We parked are bikes handed over our passports to a nurse! Then got shown to our room, no mention of costs yet. We all had a shower then went out as Linney thought he had noticed a shop earlier, he did but it was closed, so we just bought a fresh water melon, borrowed a knife from one of the inmates, who followed us to make sure she got it back. Early night after are melon feast, with a view to getting away sharply in the morning, though we have to get our passports back so that may delay us.