Best Eastern Absheron Baku

... perfect English, having he told us, recently returned from several years at London School of Economics! His mate then led us in his Merc at breakneck speed dodging the racing Porches and Ferrari's to a small hotel where we booked in and immediately demolished the mini-bars in both rooms. Off to bed at around 3 in the morning and hopefully ready to crack-on to Georgia in the morning.<br><br>Cheers, Rick.

... to stop her sliding off the oily deck into the sea. Fantastic. I have met a Russian lorry driver called Alexander, who has taught me to play Kazio. He thinks the crossing will take 3 days. I hope he's wrong but he has apparently done this journey many times.

... lost on the metro, but eventually got back to the Gordons. They had a few friends over and we spent all evening outside chatting and barbequeing. It was fantastic and we will all be reluctant to leave the land of real food, showers and beds.

Spent the day in Baku and met up with the Gordons in the early evening. We had showers! I was disappointed to find that most of my tan was ingrained dirt. Graeme took us out for a curry and few beers and we returned to sleep in beds! Chris and I shared a double bed, but he only hugged me once in his sleep. It was a special moment.

... as Qantas would have charged you 23kg x 67AUD !!! After two flights and lots of sitting around we got to Baku at 4.30am, 2.30am Turkish time. After a long wait at customs we hopped on the bus The sun came up and saw the first glimpses of Baku....A city covered in dirt, lots of construction and trees being covered with dust as well as the air. Not the prettiest cities I have seen. It supposedly has an old town but couldn't see it from here. Baku itself has 3.5 million people and 9 ...

... on billboards in the country. His son Ilham took over after he died, and although he was little known when he took over, the people seem to think he is doing an OK job. We have a six-day visa, but the truck only has a 3-day transit visa, so we have to make fairly quick time to Baku, so that the truck is in customs (for the boat trip over the Caspian Sea to Turkmenistan) before the three days are up. Friday 13th June The Azerbaijan ...

... 140 for the next two days. No problem on a flat road with a tailwind. The rain came down. It was heavy. The wind came up. It was strong. My tent flapped around all night. The ****** old trucks don't have much in the way of mufflers over here so the noise and the vibrations from fully loaded ones rumbling over the lumpy road continually woke me up all night and the stress of the visa situation made it near impossible to get back to sleep. The next morning there were ...

Dagurinn hofst a rutferdalagi og endadi med uppkostum, thar a milli skodudum vid hellaristur i Gobustaneydimorkinni eda semi eydimorkinni eins og Narim kallar tad. Eg komst ad tvi tennan dag ad su kona hefur otrulegan talanda en nanar um tad sidar. Tharna i Gobustan hafa fundist fleiri steinristur fra stein- og bornsold en hun hafdi tolu a og milli thess sem hun fraeddi okkur um myndirnar og ruddi i okkur upplysingum um lif folksins sem bjo her a ...

... uranio sono in declino e Aktau ha assunto un aspetto decadente. L'inverosimiglianza di Aktau viene accentuata dal fatto che la città si trova a centinaia di chilometri di distanza da qualsiasi altra città e in più non ci sono strade decenti di collegamento (i rifornimenti vengono effettuati principalmente per via aerea). È una città che si addice soltanto al visitatore propenso all'avventura e con una certa avversione alla comodità. " Mi sarebbe piaciuto visitare ...

... sorted out the next day's details. -- Night from HELL. When I arrived back at the ferry, scantily clad women were buzzing around and the restaurant at the front of the open deck was filling up with customers. I parked myself in the corner and ordered a beer. I sat there for hours, watching the sun set. My gaze was locked on the sun but when I would casually glance around the deck, thick lip-sticked women at neighboring tables would take turns waving me over. "English?" I would ...