Thursday, 4 September 2014

Oh yeah, it's windy in Baku


Oh my goodness, it felt like a hurricane was getting ready to pass through Baku this past weekend. It really was windy out.

 
On Saturday I'd arranged for one of the work buses to pick up a group of us and take us on a day trip to the beach. And I was a bit worried when I peeked out the window in the morning and saw leaves blowing everywhere. But as soon as we got out of the city it wasn't quite as bad. Although it was still quite breezy.


If you want a nice beach around here you have to pay. A lot of the coast is polluted by the oil rigs, so you have to go up the coast a bit further where the beach club. You have to pay to get in but they have nicer water. We're not talking Barbados-nice. More Bournemouth. But still.


I wasn't expecting much, but it was loads fun to have a day out with everybody. There was crazy golf and water sports {not that we actually did either, next time} and a couple of restaurants to choose from.


The main reason we went though was because the Euro Beach Soccer Cup was being held at the Jumeirah Hotel just up the road.  There were only two matches on that day, but it was fun to watch. Dan had a great time with his GoPro recording all the action and some of the players were really good with their bicycle kicks.

 

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