Sochi-Breeze

... per month which is the salary she was receiving when she first arrived in the city.

On our way out of the city it rained lightly and we passed by the new airport building which is not yet completed despite a charade opening for the benefit of the visiting Olympic committee. The overall impression we had of the Olympic preparations is that they are at a very crude nascent stage and that there is a long way to go if they are going to be ready ...

... they? But, there must've been times of suspense, when the outcomes looked uncertain. Let's see how, exactly, our plots thickened.) Thirty kilometers outside of Tomsk, Roma Mesigin's truck and I had crossed the River Ob, where the curvature of our white planet seemed visible, and a town shivered like an Arctic fishermens' village. Near the Ural Mountains, the "white forest" of beech trees was covered in frost. Roma Mesigin recited a Pushkin ...

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 they ...

Yesterday we were in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is no St. Petersburg. I wasn't able to get off the ship because I don't have a Seaman's Book yet. Apparently I didn't miss much. The weather was rainy and kind of cold, and there is nothing to do in Sochi. It is not a common place for cruiseships to go to, and I think this company is reconsidering going there as a port. I took a few pictures from the ship that I will ...