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Metropol the Hotel Baku

33/35-2 U.Hajibeyov, F.Amirov Streets Baku, AZ1010, Azerbaijan

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Crossing the Caucasus

A travel blog entry by 110days

... to find out about the ferry that will take us to Turkmenistan over the Caspian Sea. It doesn't have a schedule - it just goes when it's full - so we might leave tomorrow or in a week. Furthermore, although the actual crossing is 12 hours, loading and unloading each side takes "one to three days". This could be interesting.

As for Turkmenistan itself, the guide book informs us that it is most famous for "multiple personality cults" (sorry, ...

Day 3 of immobility

A travel blog entry by argieuk

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... try to apply for a visa to visit UK from Russia! However, they could apply for benefits once they got to UK, whereas we wont get anything from the various govts where we are going, will we?)

Back to Hertel, to wait for the letter, but apparently it needs to be on a different company's letterhead. All to do with what Customs will be most impressed by. Would money ease things? Not here, though.

So its off to the pub for a beer or 3 ...

To a litle bit better world

A travel blog entry by fearcuairt

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... s friends with who. Armenia's friendship with Russia is deplorable in the eyes of a young Georgian who sees Russia as only an aggressor; Georgia has managed to destroy almost every trace of Soviet presence (with the exception of the Stalin museum in the city of Gori, his birthplace. But even there, it stands as a sort of "Never Again" monument rather than a tribute to the Soviet past). In contrast, Georgia's close relationship with Turkey is almost taken as an affront by ...

What can oil do?

A travel blog entry by fearcuairt

... house and philharmonic are surrounded in beautiful shaded parks with marble stairs and fountains and thousands of benches on which to find respite from the crushing summer heat. The Old City - where we are staying - is a maze of wonderfully quaint streets, where flowers and vines spill from wrought iron balconies and rooftop gardens. A palace, several 19th century mosques and hammams, a circular stone wall and a massive tower overlooking the Caspian sea give this place a ...

Baku or bust

A travel blog entry by triptalk

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... very old mosques and caravanserais (places where people would stay overnight with their camels). It was beautiful. Fariz and I also took a walk along the park promenade along the Caspian sea. There have been so many years of oil drilling out there that it is polluted unfortunately...you can sort of smell it even. Did I say it was hot? super hot, really hot...I love sheila's air conditioned apartment! Tomorrow, off to the ...

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