tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932718.post115609527494021684..comments2023-09-29T03:50:08.238-07:00Comments on Andrew Sherman's blog: Holiday in Abkhazia, It's tough kid, but it's lifeAndrew Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05307943791144063866noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932718.post-1156367293830486812006-08-23T14:08:00.000-07:002006-08-23T14:08:00.000-07:00I read an article in which this geezer went there....I read an article in which this geezer went there... aparently his driver was afraid to stay there after dark.<BR/><BR/>Reputedly they turn the lights off in Moldova whenever the government there gets shirty... they have all their power stations or something.ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09958839106380353855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932718.post-1156199439133008262006-08-21T15:30:00.000-07:002006-08-21T15:30:00.000-07:00Transnistria (as mentioned in the NYT article) sou...Transnistria (as mentioned in the NYT article) sounds very exciting, a real life Thieve's Quarter.Andrew Shermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05307943791144063866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932718.post-1156198430064368932006-08-21T15:13:00.000-07:002006-08-21T15:13:00.000-07:00I think a semi-autonomous region is a bit like Sco...I think a semi-autonomous region is a bit like Scotland - some self-government, but not enough to start showing up at the UN. Likewise, Puerto Rico.<BR/><BR/>The really exciting places in the world are patently independent countries that no one (or hardly anyone) recognises as such - Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, Christiania, Trans-Dinistria etc.. I think Abkhazia is one of them now, but back in Soviet times it was a communist Scotland.ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09958839106380353855noreply@blogger.com