Next Stop Baku
Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 7:20 AM
Here we go again...
In a couple of hours, i'm off to the airport to fly to Baku, Azerbaijan - on the edge of the Caspian sea. But it's going to be a very quick visit - just long enough to grab a few hours sleep before the next leg of the journey.
My flight is scheduled to arrive in Baku about 10.30 tonight, Azerbaijan time. Baku is 4 hours ahead of London, so that's 6.30 London time. It's a 5 hour flight.
Tomorrow morning, at 8 o'clock Baku time, i'm due to fly from Baku to Kabul, so i'm not going to get much sleep tonight, that's for sure, although i have booked a room at the "Old City Inn" hotel. Baku to Kabul should take a bit over three and a half hours.
I think the total flying time is a couple of hours less than going via Dubai. And Baku promises to be a more interesting place than Dubai. Not that i'm going to see much of it this time, but i'm planning to spend a few more weeks in England from late April. So if Baku looks like a good spot, i'll probably spend a little more time there on the way back through. We'll see...
It's a beautiful freezing cold day in Kabul today, apparently. It should be nice and sunny though. I'm not looking forward to the weather there over the next month or so!
You can see some of my photos of Afganistan at
WillKemp-Photos.com/afghanistan