We're really in Baku. And we live here

Hot is the one word that I would use to describe the past couple of days. We ventured out on Saturday morning and by 11am the temperature had hit 38 degrees. I stopped looking after that. It's not as bad as I thought 35+ would feel though.

 

We haven't seen too much of the city yet but we have been to the supermarket. Which was such a funny experience. Some of the things are exactly the same as home - coke, milka chocolate, shampoo. But some of the things we had to rely on pictures and translators to identify. And the amount of cheese they have. My goodness. Row after row of every cheese you could possibly imagine.

 

Dan and I played it safe buying lunch, a couple of rolls, some slices if cheese and even asking at the deli counter for some slices of Turkey. We also bought some water only to take a sip find out it was sparkling. So we tipped that away and went back in to buy some of the still variety. We won't make that mistake again!

 

We've been around the harbour and the mall and fountain square briefly, but we'll go back and do those properly when the weather cools down a bit. Most if the time though we've been hanging out around the pool. There's lots of people there from either Glasgow or London that Dan knows so we've been chatting to them.

 

Our apartment isn't ready yet but we'll be moving into our temporary accommodation on Wednesday which will be a lot closer to work and the centre, so we'll be able to explore a bit more then.

 

It does feel a bit like we're on holiday at the moment, so I think reality will kick in properly when we start work tomorrow.