Woohoo!!! We've Arrived in Novo!

View from our hotel out to the bay area.
Construction, bottom left, NovoCity - mall?
  

Yes, we have finally arrived and to weather very much like Houston's. It is 35 degrees centigrade and very humid but there is often a good breeze from the Black Sea to make it bearable. Lots of people around enjoying the sun and sea. There is an hydrofoil which apparently plies the waters between Anapa and Sochi, stopping at Novorossiysk as well, thankfully.

We will be in our apartment this weekend and busy settling in for the next week or so.  
  
Now I just need lessons in the Russian language, a must here in Novorossiysk!!