A short stage today on the road to Samarkand, lined with watermelons freshly picked from the fields. We stop in the small town of Yettitom and soon see several hotels. We stopped at the end of the village for a coffee and asked if there was a hotel a little further down the road. The lady tells us we can sleep upstairs. We’d like to go a bit further, but it’s still early and if we don’t, we’ll have a long stage tomorrow... In the end, we stayed at the lady’s house and even had dinner there. Comfort is minimal, but it’s a bit of a change.