“Cha Cha, Vodka, Pive!” The sellers outside the Novy Afon cave entrance were attempting to cater to the unquenchable thirsts of the holidaymakers. Home brew wine, lethal spirits and beers. As the Russian tourists stocked up on their drinks for the...
The Sukhumi Piers are a decaying reminder of Abkhazia’s former glory. I want to show you the crumbling pleasure piers of Sukhumi, on the promenade of Abkhazia’s fragmented yet intriguingly alluring capital. This seaside city was once a thriving...
Abkhazia’s abandoned Psyrtskha Railway Station is in a state of romantic decay! Is there such a thing as romantic decay? I’ll leave that up to you to decide, but if anywhere in the world deserves this adjective, it’s most certainly Abkhazia’s...
I was unceremoniously dumped off the bus by the harsh Abkhazian bus conductor on the edge of Novy Afon. He didn’t take too kindly to my severe lack of Russian language skills- the lingua franca of the region- when I asked if this was the stop....
The sound of despair rose to a shrieking and terrifying crescendo as I climbed the steps towards Abkahazia’s ‘Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy’. This was supposed to be a monkey sanctuary, but as I got closer, all I could hear was...
The abandoned burnt out government building casts its long shadow over the city of Sukhumi, the capital of the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, a dark and visible legacy in an unrecognised and conflict strewn nation. Abkhazia’s recent history is a violent...
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