From: "George Sherwood" 

On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:27:21 +0300, Antti Kurenniemi wrote:

> "George Sherwood"  wrote in message
> news:4478978b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> This sounds great - best of luck with the new job and everything. As for
>>> communicating, I've noted that when you're in a foreign country, if you
>>> show you've gone through the effort of learning their language even a
>>> bit, communicating gets a whole lot easier and people generally become
>>> very helpful. With the exception of the French of course 
>>>
>>
>> Agree with all of that.  Russian for me though is working pretty well.  My
>> driver seems to be always testing me to see how much I know.
  Going to
>> have to work on my Azerbaijani.  Hoping to quickly pick up at least the
>> basics for greetings and the such.
>
> If you have a camera with you, do post some pics if you can. I've never been
> near there, so some virtual traveling would be really cool.

As we get out of town, I will be sure to post some pics.  Took a few
yesterday in the city along the waterfront.  Nothing too interesting there
though.  Will try to find an interesting post card for you too.

George

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