Back to Firuza ...
.. for the last dinner in Azerbaijan, I wanted to ensure that it was a fine one, so I returned here. The bread was fantastic tonight, so good that I wondered if it was freshly made on site - soft and chewy, with a strong sesame seed flavour. The roasted vegetables were out of this World, more like an Azeri ratatouille - mushroom, moist potatoes, carrot, eggplant, and a nice surprise with a hit of corn. The lamb chops were even better - too bad the portion of meat was relatively small.
BL #61: Visit Bizarrastan
September 1st 2014 Geo: 40.0846, 49.4062The 'stans - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan - truth be told, for most people these countries are a great unknown, with the only images associated with these countries being of war-torn Afghanistan, and of Borat in what is supposedly Kazakhstan. Anecdotal evidence suggests that these can be pretty bizarre countries, and unli
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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 
