Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure

Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure

"The North American media has descended on Sochi, and...how do we put this gently? Sochi's not ready.

Three of the nine hotels in the mountain complex simply aren't done, and the ones that are open are dirty, unfinished, broken, or infested with something or other."

The comments on this article are great! You have to read it from top to bottom. Of all the fuck-ups in Sochi, my favorite is this: restaurants are closed at meal times (so the employees can take their meal breaks, of course).

Note: this area does not reflect all of Russia. As many of you know, I spent a good deal of time in St. Petersburg this past summer, and almost everything there was first-rate. The only thing really wrong with the infrastructure in Peter is that it is simply not designed to accommodate the number of cars and pedestrians present there in summer, so you must expect delays when planning the daily timetable, especially if you try to do things on your own without ... er ... "knowing the ropes." That's a simple enough adjustment. Overall, I found St. Petersburg a nicer place to visit than Chicago, a city of reasonably similar size.