Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Where next?

OK so now I've been to 12/12 of the none USSR Eastern European countries and 7/15 of the Former USSR places. Where next for my main holiday? Don't know yet but Kazakhstan, Russia part 2, Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan all sound appealing. Turkmenistan -too hot, Uzbekistan - not good at the moment and Tajikistan too expensive - the 20p beers aren't such good value when you have to pay 800quid for a flight. China is a long-term goal, as is the 6month trip to Russia.

Top 10 things that remind me of Albania in no order:
1.Around 80% of the population driving a (stolen) Merc or BMW (often with its german or swiss plates still on)
2.Lots of attractive young ladies
3. Concrete bunkers located absolutely everywhere to protect the country from 'invaders/enemies'
4.People watering the tarmac
5.Everybody assuming I/we had to be Italian
6.The chaos that ensued when I asked for 2 of something (i.e. 2 beers)– usually both me and mark got 2 each.
7.Drivers always seemed to find the square of rubble you were standing on the same place they wanted to be.
8.Thousands of half-built buldings everywhere. And thousands of totally destroyed, looted buildings.
9.If you hadn’t changed money before midday, you were pretty much screwed since banks and most businesses only work half a day
10.Anarchic driving, even by E European standards. The yellow-bibbed traffic police seemed totally ineffective.

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