We started our fly-a-thon on Tuesday morning with a paddle jumper from Boston to JFK. Later that afternoon we boarded LOT flight LO007 for Warsaw arriving at 8 on Wednesday morning. Thankfully, I had booked a day room at the airport Renaissance hotel – what a blessing. A lovely room to chill and have refreshing shower.
At 4 PM we were ready to board our next leg of the journey LO191 to Tashkent. Even though premium Economy, not as spacious as on the Dreamliner. The six-hour flight was delayed a good hour while we waited for remaining passengers – the flight was surprisingly full.
I was wondering how we would fly to Tashkent while avoiding Ukraine. We took a route south and over Romania, Georgia, the Black Sea and Turkmenistan.
We arrived in Tashkent at 3AM on Thursday(EST+9) and crashed in our nice hotel room (Oscar Boutique Hotel). I learned my first Uzbek word from our cab driver- Rahmat! Thank you!
This morning we walked around this very clean residential neighborhood with small street markets, eateries, convenience stores, schools and parks – then came back to the hotel to enjoy a local tap beer. Life is good!
