Sochi: On the eve of summer

The first and only time in Sochi happened to visit 13 years ago. Comparing the then city and the current one is quite simple to compare through such an abyss. Because almost everything has changed. Everything except local residents.

They are traditionally unhappy and often rude. Although, perhaps, this is just such a southern character trait that is completely independent of the surrounding landscaping, modern road interchanges and a tributary of tourist money.

Tourists.

Four days before the summer in Sochi, the cat cried tourists. Of course, they are, but you will not find the usual crowds either on the embankment or in the Riviera Park, or in the central market in Adler. Vacationers mainly spend time in sanatoriums and excursions and only sometimes selected on the streets.

There is absolutely no one on the coast. The water is still only 20 degrees, but it would be nothing - under the scorching sun the very thing, but there is no. Now rain, then cloudy. During the day, heat is only a couple of hours. The average temperature is dawn - no more than 26 degrees.

Sochi embankment is one of the places of tourist attraction. She became so different that you are amusing. Serdyuchka no longer screams here and there is no white swan at the pond at all.

Comfortable cafes with convenient and modern furniture, mandatory rugs in the evening and shadow from snow-white awn during the day. Class restaurants and cute vintage cafes.

The life of the “barbecue for cognac” format has left here. Surprisingly, lovers of this format did not meet in several evenings. Everyone shed wine decorously and noble, listened to a light lounge and admired the sunset, conducting leisurely conversations.

But that old Sochi evening life, I still wanted to swallow. And she was found. Now the dances of full women and sweaty men, hello to the tables from Salekhard and strong drinks have moved to the embankment of the Sochi River, under the "Riviera".

“And now, at an hour, the song-no-I sounds-sounding, he’s ...”-after all, many are still going to the sea for this.

Money and at home.

It was not possible to analyze prices in Sochi in Sochi during a short trip. A couple of days before the summer, cherries and strawberries appeared. The first is 350 per kilo. Locals say that they take it well, despite the fact that this is a peak price. On the market tomatoes from 100 rubles, churchhela - 40 apiece, homemade wine from the trunk of the old Volga for 250-300.

By the way, tourists should decide on the bank before the trip - in Sochi, a full -fledged monopolist of banking services is Spring. There are no some of the usual organizations in Krasnoyarsk at all, the same Alfa-Bank ATM after 8 pm you will not find. But green signs - on every corner.

Actively in Sochi there is a sale of real estate. To be careful, then in the city you can see a dozen two houses that are not populated among beautiful skyscrapers. And perhaps they will never be residential.

These are just those houses that have permission for a number of storeys with a number three. In fact, the floors - up to 30. Sochi say that half of the apartments in these skyscrapers were sold on the eve of the Olympic Games.

Now buying square meters are sued with developers, but most likely they will not dry anything. On these dead houses you can sometimes see an unprecedented advertisement: “Apartments from the developer. Sale".

Local.

That during the Universiade in Kazan, that after the Olympic Games is one and the same. Locals are unhappy. At least taxi drivers. The denouements are wrong, the roads are so -so, then it is not that, this is not this.

Although from the outside, of course, Sochi changed a lot for the better in terms of infrastructure. From the airport in Adler to the Riviera Park in Sochi - 30-40 minutes by car.

By the way, the number 28 on local radio sounded news - this summer the city plans to accept 5.5 million tourists. Surely, most will like it.