Inside the Walled City

Walls of the Inner City (Icheri Sheher), Baku, Azerbaijan




A walk inside Icheri Sheher, Baku

I have nothing to write about. I am full time juggling 2.5 Projects. Family life has taken a hit, partly because of that. I’ve not got an approval for my intended December leave (not yet, anyway). On the contrary, they’ve heaped extra work and extra responsibilities on me, with no pay rise! What a life!

But blogging goes on. It’ll have to be picture posts for the time being. Guess I’ll post more pictures from our Baku trip in 2018. I’ve posted some before, but I’ve not posted the bulk of the photos from inside the old walled city of Baku, Icheriseher (i.e. Inner City). Here goes.


This was near where we stayed in Icheri-Sheher, the Old City Inn


An Azeri dinner at our hotel’s restaurant with Piti (that soup dish) and err… forgot what the other dishes are called. You can find Piti everywhere you go!


At the Gates of the Walled City


Parks and buildings surround the Walled City – exploring them was part of the fun




The Inner City is a mix of cobblestone roads, small cobblestone alleys, tiny cobblestone walkways and staircases


The bust of …umm didn’t bother to find out (let’s zoom in – it sez Aliaga Vahid), near the Museum of Miniature Books and the Palace of the Shirvanshahs


A cobblestone road beside the Shirvanshah’s Palace




Near the Maiden Tower


Hey honey, are you allowed to climb up? Maiden Tower, Icheriseher, Baku, Azerbaijan

That’s all for now folks!

The Arabian Wilderness

We just commemorated our 13th Anniversary. Yup, Anu & I have completed 13 years of our union! Time flies, huh? Didn’t really celebrate. Had a drink in our balcony. Last year it was spent at home. Just some private time together. I love you, Honey. I wouldn’t want anything to change.

On the work front, I am super busy, now that I am back at the blasted ITS2020 Project. And I bloody lost my alternate Saturdays off!

I think I’ll post some pictures of our picnics in the Emirati countryside, since 2 years ago (2017), we actually spent our anniversary camping, with the kids, on Jebel Jais, UAE’s highest peak! November is also the start of the picnic season in the Arabian Peninsula, so some picnic pictures coming up!


Forest fire!?! NOOOOO! What forest? It's a desert... Just boiling some water, hehe


Cooking up some instant noodles! Here, we can start our own fires! Unlike NZ and many other western countries… On the E102 Road, in Ras Al-Khaimah territory, just before the turnoff to Hatta Road – Feb 2018 (CNY)


Arabian countryside – on the E102 (Sharjah to Kalba Road), which has incidentally become the main road to Hatta, now that only UAE and Omani residents can use the old direct route from Dubai to Hatta that cuts across Omani territory!




Jayden and his mommy – Sharjah-Kalba Road, UAE – Feb 2018. (Check out these posts for more pictures of Jayden and Justin at this place)


I don’t like this sun!!! Justin, somewhere along the Hatta Road, the connecting road between E102 (Sharjah-Kalba Road) and Hatta, looking for a suitable picnic spot – Nov 2018


Let’s stop here… Picnic at Hatta Road, at an area belonging to the Ajman Exclave of Masfout – Nov 2018


Kids! Stop mucking around with the thorny trees, OK?! It'll friggin prick you!


Now, what did I tell you?!?


Hello Honey, I love you




Hatta Dam (the lesser one), UAE – There’re 2 dams in Hatta. The larger one was jam-packed with people when we visited in Nov 2018, so we skipped over to the smaller one

That’s all for now.