Originally Posted by
hugolover
Welcome to Baku, the taxi experience is terrible, most recently was a guy with some local rap blasting away, blue flashing lights in the pax footwell and he used not only his headlights and horn but also the hazard lights to get people to move out of the way.
I would say that not even His Most Supreme Excellency Mr Aliyev has the roads cleared for him quite like I did, and all for £5!
Actually when i visited AZ last spring, the airport access road was blocked during 3/4h just to ensure that the local dictator did not have to mingle with the peasants traveler taking their flight (or at least who tried as i am pretty sure that some folks missed theirs)
El senor Aliev was going apparantly to a kind of european summit
The magic of "strong man" states . Nice euphemism for a full blown kleptocracy russian style. Very interesting country nevertheless.
One never appreciates enough living a democratic free speech and rule of law state until you lost it