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MOTHER RUSSIA!!
... and it’s not in the bar.
The ferry docks in mother Russia mid afternoon and then starts the passing of pieces of paper. No real idea what I’m doing or what they’re doing I don’t leave the customs until 6pm. The Frenchies are good ones and they feed me and we drink French wine to wile away the hours.
Getting out of Sochi is pretty tough with a lot of mountains and a lot of s bends and wet roads. I ride north to ...
Not impressed
... Not liking this at all! Have the Russians not figured out that tourists equal money, money, money! Duh!
June 17 - Sochi, Russia
I got to my office at 7:30am, just docking in Sochi, I looked out the window and saw people on the beach and swimming in the water. Its 7:30 am folks and its an overcast day. MMMMM.
Trapped, but in a good way! I had a great lunch up on the pool deck, a great afternoon nap, and watched a movie. How relaxing is that!
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Sochi Stopover
Another day and another port with our ship arriving in Sochi and mooring off the coast. Sochi is the longest city in Europe, stretching some 140 kilometres along the Black Sea coast and there were beaches and seaside attractions evident in the area alongside the harbour. After breakfast we waited in the Queen's Lounge for our excursion to be called and were amongst the first off the ship, with the bureaucracy from the port taking time to set ...
WINTER TRAVELS TO THE BLACK SEA
... in which the winter trees wore "serebryanie angely" (silver angels). I didn't want to get stuck somewhere, gathering silver angels. An unsocial-looking driver, Valodya, put it best when he nodded at Russia's white fields and said, "Bolshaya, unilaya zemlya." (A big, depressing land.) In contrast, to look at gorgeous Elina raised one's spirits. She'd always had long, brilliant black hair and a white face like an adorable puppy's. ...
Sochi, Russia
The first of our eastern block countries. The news about Sochi was that they were waiting to see the outcome of their winter Olympics bid. We heard when we arrived back to Sydney that they were successful in that bid. The only issue I have with that is that they will probably need to have an etiquette crash course as I found them particularly unfriendly. You would imagine if they were practising hosting the Olympics that ...


