Never heard of Sochi? - you have,now !

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Joined: 19/12/2008
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Message Posted:
15/10/2010 11:07

Sochi?



WHERE's THAT ? I hear you ask...



Well it will host the 2014 Winter Olympics and now a F1 Grand Prix



but WHERE IS IT ? !...







Russia.. a resort on the Black Sea with a micro-climate that is often tropical and a backdrop of mountains that mean good snow..



Prices there SKY rocketed and all the Criminals ( oops successful 'bizinez men ' have pads there... Russia wants to make it THEIR Monaco



http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=sochi+map



http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9091934.stm

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Message Posted:
15/10/2010 11:36

..and they said that Cyprus wanted an F1 GP...

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
15/10/2010 15:40

Re: Msg1,



"Russia wants to make it THEIR Monaco"



mx6,

You made me laugh yet again!



P.S. BTW those mountains with "good snow" are nowhere that near the town - it's quite a distance!

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Message Posted:
15/10/2010 16:08

Dear Clarissa



O gori ... Ya znaiu ;)



but you CAN see the mountains ! .. I mean they are calling the next Olympics "London 2010"... you can't see Weymouth ( Yachting) from London ;)

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
15/10/2010 16:52

Re: Msg4,



mx6,



Yeah, and one can see the Alps from the space.

It never been "good snow" there until Mr. Putin said so.



Back to F1: Bernie is reported to be "very happy" after he has signed a seven-year deal with Putin ( 2014-2020). I bet he is.





P.S. BTW, why is it when you try to look at the map of the Olympic Games, the first thing you see instead of the map is "Russian sexy women"? Main Olympic attraction?

Marisa


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 545

Message Posted:
15/10/2010 18:18

I heard about it , and been there several times .

Sandcastle


Joined: 16/03/2009
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Message Posted:
15/10/2010 19:55

Met James Hunt there many years ago on the beach!!!!

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Message Posted:
16/10/2010 10:40

re msg 7



>>Met James Hunt there many years ago on the beach!!!!<<





In Sochi .. ? ;o

Sandcastle


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Message Posted:
16/10/2010 18:26

Yep. Many years ago. If its Sochi on the Black sea, part of the old USSR.

Sandcastle


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Message Posted:
16/10/2010 18:29

It was just after the Olymics in Moscow. They were selling lots of little teddy bear badges everywhere. We did a trip to Moscow, Sochi then onto t. Petersburg.



He was staying in Sochi and relaxing on the beach.