These two videos were actually recorded yesterday, but rather than stream them live, I recorded them without using Qik at all. (This was I can double the resolution used). However I forgot to then upload them, hence the 24 hour delay in getting them on the blog.
Irina, Anna and I went for a walk through Astana park, to take a look at all the equipment before it was disassembled. The castle walls, yurts, stone carvings (painted expanded polystyrene) and Kazakh warrior statues were put up for Astana Day/the President’s birthday, and are being removed. There were quite a few workmen wandering around without shirts, and from all the heavy lifting, it looked like they did ab workouts all day long. Sorry for the women (and few men) reading this post, but I don’t think we actually see any/many of these workers on video.
I hadn’t realised how windy it would sound through the phone’s microphone at the entrance to the park, sorry.
Small break in recording as I needed to use the phone for other things…
