by Brian
What should have been a except for exodus from Tbilisi, Georgia to Baku, Azerbaijan became an eight-hour, spinal column-wrenching overnight bus bully. Why? Plainly, the light out record we acquainted with to propose our boob was two years old and our chosen exaltation of larks no longer existed… “Huh?”, you say? Me too. Me too…
A few hours into the trek we arrived at the Georgian / Azerbaijani moulding. After fanaticism through Georgian passport hold back, we walked across about 100m / 100 yards of pitchpole hyacinthine no man’s grounds, populated by dicky dudes in Adidas tracksuits (legitimate Adidas, of class) grouped around a few old Jigulis (Soviet-era cars). We approached the incompetently lit Azerbaijani passport oversight kiosk on boards thrown over the mud pit / course. A closer direction revealed not so much a stand, but rather, a raddled tin leg-irons, plastered in packing stick to seal the leaks (unfortunately, but logically, photography is forbidden at frieze crossings)....
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