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MOTHER RUSSIA!!
The ferry eventually leaves Trabzon at 8ish and bertha is joined by a group of quads riden by Frenchies. Not entirely sure of whether I have a seat or not I curl up in the bar and try to sleep. Unfortunately there's loud **** music that interrupts any attempt I make. With prior notification of prostitutes and general low lifes on this crossing I try identify some candidates, not entirely sure which ones are the prostitutes though. Eventually I find where I’m meant ...
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
... saw examples on the way back to Sochi at one border point with Georgia where the pot-bellied policeman smoked and swaggered and gave hard looks to traffic.
There was a serpentine line of returning passengers waiting to get on the tenders at the harbour as only one tender was allowed on the dock at a time despite there being plenty of room for more, and once we had finally got back to the ship – "Welcome home" was our greeting from an ...
WINTER TRAVELS TO THE BLACK SEA
... Do you think all men are idiots?) She said, no, but most of them. I asked if she knew any that weren't. She said, "maybe two." I asked who, and she said she still didn't know yet. One man, fifty-year-old Sergei, who'd picked me up in the Altai Mountains this last summer, had recently written me a beautiful letter. In response to my letter to him from Tomsk, he wrote: "TBoe nuCbMo u *u3HepaDoCTHoe u HeMHoro rpyCTHoe. OHo TaKoe-*e KaK ...
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 ...


