STATS Days on the road: 365 Number of beds: 14 Countries visited: Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Turkey Postcards sent: 10 Beautiful Mount Ushba, Svaneti, Georgia Thoughts Wow. It’s been a year since we…
stats Days on the road: 335Number of beds: 9Countries visited: Georgia, RussiaPostcards sent: 0 Thoughts Last month has been very different from the previous ten: we are finally on familiar territory – food, language, architecture,…
Another night time walk around Tbilisi, this time by the holy trinity cathedral in the Avlabari neighborhood. Our last day in this wonderful city.…
Walking route to Jvari church from Mtskeheta turned out to be super simple – despite the guidebook threatening us with a hard and tedious trek. Totally worth it too considering taxis were trying to…
Walking around Avlabari, aka the Armenian neighborhood, in Tbilisi, Georgia.…
A walk around downtown Tbilisi, a look at the Freedom Square.…
Hanging out in Tbilisi on the historic day of the country’s signing of an association agreement with the EU. It was pretty unreal – fireworks, concerts, people celebrating everywhere.…
Night time view of Tbilisi from the Narikala fortress.…
Most definitely our worst, most dangerous transport day on this trip. Welcome to Georgia, where a bus ticket gets you a seat in a private minivan from hell – otherwise known as our epic…
Another beautiful hike around Mestia, Georgia. This time we made our way up past the airport to climb atop the most unreal hill of wild flowers.…
Hanging out on a mountain — this time no hike, very easy and pleasant — hitched a ride to the chairlift (~8 km from Mestia) and then onwards and upwards by the mechanical wonder.…
We’ve made it past the guard dogs, hiked up the stream, criss crossed the forest, and climbed high high above Mazeri for this little dinky lake. Oh well. Still pretty gorgeous. Another great day…
