Pics from Boratstan

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Well, mayhap this becomes  a weekly feature.  Unfortunately I  copied the wrong photos on my memory stick, so all I have right now is pics of a local hyena and some cops (love the hats)

 

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the cops are fun here.  bribery is so rife.  you see them on the side of the road pulling all the larny cars over.  The basically demand money for nothing.  if they spot a foreigner off you go and you gotta haggle with them..

 

apparently the trick is to ask for a receipt... fortunately I've not got a car so thus far it's not a problem.  but it is entertaining listening to the folk from the ex-pat club

 

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and a warning somewhere in the mountains.

 

what I don't get is that there aren't that many foreigners here, and most not even english, and yet this warning is in English......

 

 

[FanieFiets]

SWAT?

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they probably picked up from the movies..... there are a some english gems here and there.  I'll try to find the pics this evenign

[Bikalot]

i like ur hyena... ha ha,my word that is quite possible the ugliest dog i have ever seen... if that is even a dog... its got like two different coats...

[Reg Lizard]

i like ur hyena... ha ha' date='my word that is quite possible the ugliest dog i have ever seen... if that is even a dog... its got like two different coats...[/quote']

 

The words "pavement special"comes to mind.

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there are *just a few* stray dogs around here.  there was a news report about an evicted elderly person that became supper for a gang/herd/group of stray dogs (what do you call a whole stray dogs roaming around on their own - a Pack?)

 

but the Hyena was so ugly he was cute.  I'd have taken him home if I was feeling vaguely interested in getting 27 skin diseases from him.  but shame, he was so scared....

 

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70 years of occupation, vodka and stalin will leave some kind of mark...

 

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And here is one of the famous and stylish apartment blocks, with a lovely autumn tree..... kind of poetic: the block is bleak, the tree is becoming bleak....

 

[Bikalot]

hyena are very nisce... i like like sexy time

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they do love their flowers though.  There are loads of parks and fountains, and everywhere there are bucket loads of roses

 

 

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This was the view from our first flat.  Awesome mountains that just seem to go on forever.  Plenty of mtb opportunity if you got the lungs 'n legs for it.

 

 

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It strange how the soviet era brought these massive square and dull apartment blocks, and here and there they missed some of the local and traditional stuff.  I mean, how cool is this building.  On the other hand, maybe it's all relative and anything not square and constructed from grey cement is awesome..

 

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Not just in africa. 

 

[Pantani]

And the locals? Any talented double jointed former gymnasts come swimsuit models sometimes wannabe tennis players?