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Ghost cities and making a dash for the Bosphorus 38 Ancient city of Ani - 5 Aug 2010



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Blog: Ghost cities and making a dash for the Bosphorus
Date: September 5th 2010

The taxi driver in the Georgian town of Akhaltsikhe laughed at me as I put on my seat belt - he demonstrated the cause of his mirth - his frame and stomach were so big that the seat belt wouldn’t reach across him. I assumed his sheer corpulence would make all head on collisions a non-issue. So off we went along the road to the border with ni ... read more


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