Azzerbajaserhakgiikan???

Sooooooo.... there's a block of holidays coming up soon. Eid #2 + UAE National Day = 10 days off.

I've decided that I have a problem. I have a, what you might call, travel addiction. I actually feel a rush once plane tickets have been booked... Weird, I know.

When one is living in Abu Dhabi, how can one go to a stranger place? Ah yes, for some of you, there may be the attraction of Djibouti or Timbuktu (Hi Mom!)... but whilst trolling the internets, when one stumbles upon flight deals from flydubai (UAE's low cost carrier - that has daily flights to Aleppo and Khartoum, and yes, Djibouti... but anyway...) and one notices that there is a deal for "Dubai to Baku for 300 dirhams" (less than $100 CDN and about 1000 Rand), one must automatically find on google where one might find this mythical "Baku".

For those of you who are too lazy to google "Baku", I will tell you this: It's in Azerbaijan.

(Ty has been calling it "Djelli-baybee" since our decision that we absolutely must go there this instant, right now, let's book the tickets and I don't care that it's almost winter there!)

And we will be there next week.