Octopussy – Udaipur, India
Udaipur is the setting for the James Bond film Octopussy. They won't let you forget it.
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Light switches – Mumbai, India
A short tale of how I accidentally annoyed the night staff of a hotel in Mumbai, by turning on the light.
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Not Constantinople – Istanbul, Turkey
Flying ahead of the rest of the group, I enjoyed three days to myself in Istanbul
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16 years Before Christmas – Batumi, Georgia
Looking for dinosaurs in Batumi, and visiting Stalin's home home of Gori
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A night at the ballet – Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi ballet is rightly famous around the world. We took a break from the cheese pies to enjoy a performance of Giselle
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Killer – Tbilisi, Georgia
We've been playing Killer for the last couple of days - you draw out a name, a murder weapon and a truck location and have to touch that person, with those weapons, in that location. For example Bob, with a water bottle, by the stairwell.
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Georgian Wine – Crasniy Most, Georgia
We were treated to a huge volume of Georgian wine, both at a vineyard and in someone's back yard
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Mud volcanoes – Gobustan, Azerbaijan
A fun couple of days. The first day we visited a Zoroastrian fire temple, where worshippers would travel from all over Central Asia to see the rocks that burnt all day and night. This occurred as the natural gas escaping from the vast underground reserves caught fire and burnt uninterrupted. It seems the vast reserves have finally run out as…
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