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Issues in the airport, did they involve the bastard putting his hat on the counter to put money in. Also calling you back through after opening your case
No, got strongarmed into a side room and accused of smuggling drugs. Strip searched while they went through my gear behind my back, then when they gave me everything back my wallet was empty. Fuckers. I claimed it back on expenses mind.
 


Khazak, Uzbek etc

Might have some work there for a few days.
Having never worked abroad before, being a nervous wreck without a wingman, and with an almost pathological dislike of dealing with strangers, how difficult is this likely to be?

My lifetime foreign achievement so far has been to fly to Paris and go for a pint on my own.

If I’m met at the airport, taken to the hotel, picked up for the job, returned to the hotel and taken back to the airport, I may just about cope with it. But if I’m left to arrange any part of it myself, I’m likely to end up wandering around eternally like Marcus Brodie in The Last Crusade.

Anyone worked there before, and if so, how many times did you get ripped off and/or mugged?
If you've been to 7even on your own on a Saturday night you'll be fine ower in the 'stans there mate.
 
Atyrau is f***ing bleak mind.



When they started the 14 day visa exemption (now 28), the immigration official 'accidentally' stamped my passport with the wrong date so I had already overstayed. Luckily one of the office admin girls spotted it straight away and drove back to the airport with my boarding card to make sure they put it right. I have had several issues in Atyrau f***ing airport.

You have to be very careful. They really are a nightmare. You Atyrau based or site?

If you really are the way you say you are, don't go. You will be ripped to bits starting from getting ripped off with taxi driver and taken to nearest cash point. Worked in the area for years on and off. I felt safer in Basra than Atyrau late at night. The locals hate us....

Walking back from some of the local bars Friday / Saturday after about 11.30 can be very dodgy. As you say the locals are less than pleased we are there. I stay opposite (500 yards) from one of the most popular and even that can be dicey.
 
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Khazak, Uzbek etc

Might have some work there for a few days.
Having never worked abroad before, being a nervous wreck without a wingman, and with an almost pathological dislike of dealing with strangers, how difficult is this likely to be?

My lifetime foreign achievement so far has been to fly to Paris and go for a pint on my own.

If I’m met at the airport, taken to the hotel, picked up for the job, returned to the hotel and taken back to the airport, I may just about cope with it. But if I’m left to arrange any part of it myself, I’m likely to end up wandering around eternally like Marcus Brodie in The Last Crusade.

Anyone worked there before, and if so, how many times did you get ripped off and/or mugged?
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You have to be very careful. They really are a nightmare. You Atyrau based or site?



Walking back from some of the local bars Friday / Saturday after about 11.30 can be very dodgy. As you say the locals are less than pleased we are there. I stay opposite (500 yards) from one of the most popular and even that can be dicey.
guessing Atyrau hotel, guns and roses ?
 
Canny advice so far. However, people saying go out and enjoy the experience obviously haven’t read enough of my threads to understand my issues with people and with non-organised things. I once went to a conference in Harrogate and didn’t speak to a single person while I was there.
Ditto with the aforementioned Paris trip. I just mooched around smoking tabs aggressively and swaggering like a hard man.
If I do end up in one of these places on my own I’m not leaving the f***ing hotel.
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I grew up in Ashingstan. Loads of radgy natives disguised as badgers hiding amongst the rubble, always trying to steal from me as I walked by.
 
Do it - just make sure that transport is arranged from airport to hotels and hotel to work. There is a classic taxi scam in all those countries where you get in one and driven to an ATM and asked for a shitload of money in a menacing way.
 
You have to be very careful. They really are a nightmare. You Atyrau based or site?



Walking back from some of the local bars Friday / Saturday after about 11.30 can be very dodgy. As you say the locals are less than pleased we are there. I stay opposite (500 yards) from one of the most popular and even that can be dicey.

Why's that? (genuine question)
 
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