Le Caspien Hotel

... herbe rare, un paysage d'ocre. La ville de Bakou est impressionnante, les petro-dollars coulent à flot, ça construit de partout, le contraste est très saisissant par rapport à la campagne traditionnelle. Je suis là encore jusqu'à mardi, aujourd'hui ...

... (called Flag) last night, from the hotel bar), but we’re heading out to dinner soon (at Le Caspien, a recommendation from an English writer staying at our hotel – plus the lively Café du Livres Internet café after that, so I can try to ...

... & harsh. Sun was setting as we passed M's flash new railway stn. The termination point for our tour was the Hotel le Caspien, located in the Ville Nouvelle, in the rather upmarket suburb of Gueliz. Plenty of fancy boutiques & cafes on the main ...

... .  At the end of the meal Simo gave us twenty minutes to look around before we met for the trip back to the hotel – I wandered around and watched a man tap dancing on the truncated end of a 44 gallon drum, many pipe players and drummers, ...

... through the city visiting places I knew nothing about (some rose gardens, a mosque with some sort of graveyard attached, a famous hotel I'd never heard of and which wouldn’t let us in anyway) but which were interesting enough to look at.  ...