Everyone with a blue passport (the Aussies, Kiwis and Americans) have to head off to the Georgian embassy to get a visa for the next country, but fortunately the Brits don’t have to so I get to spend the day wandering around town. Baku is a British (BP) and American (Exxon) oil town so has [...]
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Waiting on a ferry – Middle of the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan
The ferries coming in all day have been really quite good looking – painted white and kept clean. Our ferry by contrast is possibly painted rust coloured, or more likely a complete rust bucket. It’s called the Professor Gül, and happens to be mentioned in a book I’m currently reading (The New Great Game: Blood [...]
Waiting for a ferry – Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan
If you zoom into the map above you can see the car park and a ferry docked at the terminal.
Get to the ferry terminal at midday. Ferry has just left so need to wait for the next one at 6pm. No problem.
…time passes…
2 dock workers have sadly died in a benzene accident so the next [...]
