Atyrau 1998
Great pics and for me memories however we were on 8 & 4 not 6 & 4
XV was not in the KCS hangar in june 98 I did the lease deal late in 98
under threat from Grant as winter was approaching fast (-35) the hangar
chosen by Bristow had an earth floor and was not good for jacking up 212
Garth ( RIP) did the ferry on both XV & ER(99) with his knowledge !!!? of Russian ( I still recall "helping" Ringo with his PC return for XV ferry!!)
We in fact stayed in "Chagala" Hotel ( Sea Gull in Kazakh) for the first few months and then some pretty poor local aparts ( got better thereafter)
Had Redhill listened to Dallas ( re daily rates ) then we could all have stayed
in Hotel with OKIOC ( but then maybe with less fun) Dallas had an other good plan for accommodation ( similar to BHL and others in Iran etc) but was told by
K,G-P that " we dont buy property !!! ( Shetlands ???) So with help of Natash
I bought 2 aparts in Atyrau ASAP and have averaged 10% the last 14 years
You have a wonderfull site which I only came apon throu Andrew in KL this year
many happy memories from the pics. One day I might even forget / Forgive
the town in Texas near to Fort Worth .
RGDS