The Kazakh military escorted us like diplomats, but the Russian welcome included an interrogation that nearly made me confess where I hide my sweets.
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My patience as a shopkeeper has its limits, and that limit is measured by the smell of meat-filled pastry while I’m stuck watching the patio.
My eyes have returned to normal thanks to Kazakh dairy medicine, and we've swapped river mosquitoes for a forest, complete with a human picnic.
A horde of mutant Kazakh mosquitoes tried to devour my eyes, but my humans saved me using the high-tech solution of a cold bag of smetana.
The cowboys of the steppe have swapped their horses for two wheels, and I have discovered that a forest is the best shield in the world when nature decides to blow a gale.
We walked for hours through Karaganda and I found out that in this city, cosmonauts used to celebrate their space missions by taking bubble baths.
The humans left me locked up guarding our palace on wheels while they went off to get themselves into an old Russian prison, proving once again that their ideas of sightseeing are most peculiar.
Los humanos se empeñan en entrar a edificios con formas raras mientras yo descubro que el mejor diseño arquitectónico del mundo es una cámper aparcada junto a un charco gigante.
Un error mecánico de los que cuestan billetes, un maratĂłn cultural bajo la pirámide de Astaná y un paseo nocturno junto al rĂo. Cerramos el dĂa con los humanos culturizados y la Navara con el aceite correcto.
El gran reencuentro con Tito Joan, un templo colosal en el amanecer y un maratón de patitas entre rascacielos futuristas y conos de oro. ¡Astaná nos ha dejado con la boca abierta!
Un dĂa de colada con rescate de efectivo, hamburguesas locales y un cambio de aires estratĂ©gico. Nos mudamos al aparcamiento del aeropuerto para esperar el gran reencuentro de mañana.
A forced farewell to paradise, an equestrian monument on the motorway, and an overland chat via translator. We crossed the radical contrast of Astana, moving from grey blocks to hyper-modern skyscrapers.