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Tuesday 24th February 2009Hotel Absheron Demolition ~ UpdateThey are making good progress with the Hotel Absheron demolition, all of the room floors have been removed now. They are currently in a big concrete pile on the floor which they have started to clear away. Note the digger in the background of the picture below, i'm not sure what it is balancing on?! If you look closely at the picture below you can see the side of a yellow digger. This one had a bit of an accident. Apparently it toppled over onto it's side and it's been laying there amongst the rubble ever since. I'm not sure how they ...
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Thursday 19th February 2009A Surprise VisitorMr stitchitch sent me these pictures of a surprise visitor at the entrance to the Terminal where they work. It seems this guy was out for an early morning stroll and thought he'd see what this oil & gas plant malarkey was all about. He loitered around for a little bit waiting for food which he gratefully received and then he was on his way! :O)
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Tuesday 10th February 2009It’s foggy in Baku todayOne 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.
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Monday 2nd February 2009The Apartment is Falling Down…...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 ...