As you probably don’t know, I’m currently in Azerbaijan. I got into work this morning and there was a mysterious e-mail from our Security Office
“There has been a specific threat identified in regards to an attack on the US embassy in Baku”
it began. These things happen, but sometimes you have to shrug your shoulders abd get on with life, especially when the e-mail continued
“there has been no increase in the the overall threat level - were still on level Orange or Apple or some such*”
except that
“the security office, the US Embassy and the British Embassy are all closed today and have closed the bomb shutters*”
That sounds pretty serious, but nothing came in after 09:00, so I figured it must have been a storm in a teacup, so I blithely ignored the warning, left the office at the normal time, went out for Margaritas and Nachos (Baku isn’t that much of a backwater) and walked back to my hotel.
Stay safe out there… when I used to live in Tbilisi we were never very concerned with crime… only civil war breaking out. Now there we are in Dubai we fell 1000 times safer but our families are more concerned since we’re in the “Middle East”.
Never made it to Baku but might take a holiday up there sometime… wish AirArabia would start service there.
Azal fly there from Dubai
Although I am not sure if would get on an Azal flight anymore , one of their planes went down a couple of years back flying to Atyrau (or aktau)
Is it getting close to election time again? I remember things being tense about the time of the ‘parliamentary elections’ there and the predictions were that when the presidential elections came around things would get some what more excitable.
Mind you the most dangerous thing there is probably the other drivers and people who stand in the middle of the road, dressed in dark clothing at night, in areas with no street lighting.
