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Azerbaijan

  • Tuesday 10th February 2009
    It’s foggy in Baku today Azerbaijan | (0)
    One of the things I like about Baku is the weather, especially during the summer months when you can pretty much guarantee sunshine every day. It rarely rains here but occasionally a thick fog creeps in across the bay and everything goes eerily white. I took these pictures no more than 5 minutes apart today, normally we can see right across the bay.
  • Monday 2nd February 2009
    The Apartment is Falling Down… Azerbaijan | (2)
    ...Well it feels a bit like that at the moment. Next door to our apartment block is an old hotel called 'Hotel Absheron'. It is the epitome of Soviet style construction, boxy and concrete. Just before Christmas the hotel was cordoned off and they began to demolish it, we believe a new hotel will be built in it's place. I don't know about you, but my idea of demolition consists of a series of controlled explosions which reduces the building to a dusty heap of rubble on the floor. Instead they have decided to use big cranes to lift JCB diggers ...