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My travelling throught the Caucasus countries started with a trainjourney from the Netherlands to Brussels. When I arrived in Brussels, it was 01.30am allready and with an airplane leaving for Riga at 09.00am, there was no point for me to search for accomodation in Belgium capital. So I decided to drop my luggage in the trainstation and stay up all night, waiting for a suitable time to go to Zaventem airport. I spended that night drinking a couple of beers in a bar in downtown Brussels with s...

I have heard such a great deal about Baku both last year and then this year from Azeris in Georgia.They were all extremely proud of their capital. So far the city has lived up to their descriptions in some ways though not in all. They boasted about how modern the city is, which is only partially true. Of course compared to many other places it is, but half of the city seems to beunder construction, a quarter is genuinely modern while the rest is falling apart. The road into the city from the ...

I know many of you have never heard of Azerbaijan, and for that you should be glad. There were some scenes in a James Bond movie filmed in this former Soviet republic and lifelong enemy of Armenia, with a casino and Russian babes draped around rich men in tuxedos--which is utter bullshit--and a scene in an icky-looking caviar processing place, which is a lot more like it, but don't eat the fish eggs till you read more about this place. And boy did they get the corruption part right, and you k...

July 5The exploration of the day was Isti Su. This literally means “Hot Water.” Isti Su is a Soviet Era sanitarium – but really there are a set of hot springs. At least, that was my understanding after a conversation I had at the place I finally found in the mountains. The Soviet Era sanitarium is pretty unappealing. Trashy. The resort itself is like Chernobyl or something. It looks like it was just abandoned after the Soviet Union’s collapse. The rose bushes are healthy. The building...