Early Morning Breakfast and Chai

These Ladies offered me bread, tea and something that looks like Marmite (I got really excited), however on tasting it I was very much disappointed. Not quite sure how to describe it but it tasted quite horrible. The women could also have opened up a jewellers with the number of gold teeth they had.

Waiting for Visas in Baku, Azerbaijan

September 12th 2013
The bike ride from Tbilisi in Georgia to Baku in Azerbaijan, even though not the most physically challenging, was the one that hurt me the most. Unbearable heat leading to dehydration, mad drivers, my bike not functioning 100 % and the final straw; finding the contents of my handlebar bag (mobile phone, i-pod and headphones) covered in gooey magnesium sulphate (paste for minor abrasions etc) made ... read more

Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nag... ... read more

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