Well we made it! The flight was pretty uneventful...we watched a film, ate a meal, landed. The usual.
When we arrived there was a lovely girl waiting to take us to the visa desk then through passport control {while everyone else queued} before handing us over to a guy who collected our luggage an then finally taking us to our driver. Dan and I want to know where we book that service for future!
I am just so thankful that all of our luggage was there. A poor guy called Sean who we'll be working with in Baku landed with us and none of his cases turned up. We offered to lend him some of our things but he said he had bits in his hand luggage that would last until Sunday night when the cases should eventually arrive.
We exchanged a few Pounds into Manats before we left the airport - I'm worried that if banks are open only Monday to Friday and we can't get away from work we might not be able to get any cash {Azerbaijan is one of the countries that doesn't let currency out of the country, so you can't buy it before you come}. So at least that should sort us out for a while.
Our driver was great {he even managed to fit our six suitcases into a car that should probably hold no more than three!}. He was an official Baku 2015 driver so knew all the sight to point out to us - the Olympic stadium, the gymnastics stadium, the athletes' village.
When you get into the city the buildings are amazing. They are either really modern or look like you are in New York's upper east side. And I have no idea how much electricity they must use, but almost every building is lit...and they look beautiful. That was pretty much all we saw of it yesterday {well, that and a W H Smiths!!}.
We checked into the hotel, got room service and went straight to sleep. We're going to go out and explore today.
I am just so thankful that all of our luggage was there. A poor guy called Sean who we'll be working with in Baku landed with us and none of his cases turned up. We offered to lend him some of our things but he said he had bits in his hand luggage that would last until Sunday night when the cases should eventually arrive.
We exchanged a few Pounds into Manats before we left the airport - I'm worried that if banks are open only Monday to Friday and we can't get away from work we might not be able to get any cash {Azerbaijan is one of the countries that doesn't let currency out of the country, so you can't buy it before you come}. So at least that should sort us out for a while.
Our driver was great {he even managed to fit our six suitcases into a car that should probably hold no more than three!}. He was an official Baku 2015 driver so knew all the sight to point out to us - the Olympic stadium, the gymnastics stadium, the athletes' village.
When you get into the city the buildings are amazing. They are either really modern or look like you are in New York's upper east side. And I have no idea how much electricity they must use, but almost every building is lit...and they look beautiful. That was pretty much all we saw of it yesterday {well, that and a W H Smiths!!}.
We checked into the hotel, got room service and went straight to sleep. We're going to go out and explore today.
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