Bye Bye Baku
What a remarkable trip. A journey like this, while simple today, would have been almost impossible only twenty years ago when this part of the world was an integral part of the Soviet Union.
To travel within the USSR required …
What a remarkable trip. A journey like this, while simple today, would have been almost impossible only twenty years ago when this part of the world was an integral part of the Soviet Union.
To travel within the USSR required …
Twenty-four hours in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku really isn’t enough, but as the morning dawned grey and drizzly, and with the whole of the city to see and a day in which to do it, I ignored the elements …
Arriving at the Heydar Aliev International airport in Baku is a really interesting experience. The terminal is wonderful, with …
In the end, it was a bit of an anticlimax, as we slid slowly and very neatly into the small port of Poti. Small the port maybe, but it is a hive of activity, with a miscellany of the …
Well, this morning I received a note from my contact at the ferry company in Odessa:
From: VLADLEN [mailto:wave_vyt@mail.ru]
Sent: Mon 11/23/2009 1:34 AM
To: Max Johnson
Subject: Re: Help!
DEAR MR.MAX,
THE SITUATION WITH M/V “GREIFSWALD”:
1/.DELAY BECAUSE OF …
Tension on board the MS Griefswald mounting, and I would not entirely rule out the possibility of mutiny.
Now don’t get me wrong; the hours pass on board The MS Griefswald at precisely the same rate as they do elsewhere, and I don’t begrudge the UKR Ferry Company the additional eighty or so hours of my life that …
The problem seems to be that of small ports and big ships.
It is Friday afternoon, and we have been advised that we can’t land today because there is a large gas tanker blocking our path to the single …
At the rate that we are travelling, we may never arrive, although I am led to believe that we will be there within four or five hours. I am not sure that I will be too disappointed to see the …