How it all began...

Baku. Who would have thought!? Not me ;) Well, not five months ago anyway...One beautiful evening J came back from work and said that his company is looking for people to work in Azerbaijan and it was during the same beautiful evening that we’ve decided that this was a perfect opportunity for us to see and experience a totally different part of the world. How totally different it is we were yet to find out...

Well...so here we are... July is almost over. It’s been a month since I’ve arrived, but it feels as if it was just a few days ago. I’m an alien in an alien place. My Russian is tragic. My Azeri... nonexistent. But I am learning new tricks everyday ;) I know where to go if I want to buy cheap veggies or if I need to buy something European. Sometimes, I have to visit a few shops before I can prepare a meal. So I’m forced to be creative in the kitchen ;) Anyone who knows me at all will realise how hard this is for me ;) But the biggest challenge is the public transport system. There are no official timetables, no bus route maps, not even a simple list of buses and their destinations. The only way to find out is to figure it out yourself while getting lost in Baku’s suburbs. Sometimes even that is not enough as the buses change their routes quite regularly ;) Just to make it all easier ;)

Sometimes, I miss some of the things I found so boring in the British chapter of my life... rain, food, shops and the unbearable lightness of being... England! I was taking you for granted ;) I wanted something different, and I found it!