Hotel Ambasadori Tbilisi

... e putování nadstandart, čtyři lůžka na kupé (naší společnicí měla být důchodkyně, kterou ale její maminka domluvila výměnu kupé - to asi ten Ruskij Standart v našich rukou), televize na pokoji (dávali Terminál v ruském rychlodabingu) a dokonce i funkční malé lampičky u postelí na čtění. Zahráli jsme si pár her s kostkami a ulehli na docela malé postele.

Let's see if I can get caught up with this blog! We started our trip in Tbilisi, Georgia. Neither of us was wild about it, but glad to have seen it anyway. Our Lonely Planet travel guide calls it a Eurasian crossroads, and it does have that feeling; mainly in the carved wooden balconies that you see. One striking thing is that you can go from a pretty poor, run down, looking street, turn the corner and literally be in a different world of western ...

... the city whose population has almost doubled from the number of refugees who ended up there from Abkhazia) and then a marshrutka to Mestia. Six long, carsick filled hours. The ride toKazbegi wasn't as bad- the roads were stable. This ride I almost lost my cookies a few too many times. Especially when the curvy road and fast driving was mixed with heights. I'm not normally one to be afraid of heights, but when I found myself ...

... to see;)) - one could manage to visit the same in 8 days I guess. This was my first time travelling alone, but most of the time in Georgia I was accompanied by my Georgian friend Tamar [I owe her a huge thanks for all the showing, explaining and making me company] and sometimes Gio. Actually, travelling on one's own is not such a rubbish as I had believed, because one often meets other interesting lonely travellers who he would normally not socialise with if he had his own friends ...

... can bring out of the country without paying further tax. We had to stand our ground with them as they were obviously looking for some backshee. 3/. The ferry was apparently the best one - thank god we didn't get to travel on the worst one. the "restaurant" had a menu of one item - meat soup. It was a colourless liquid with an inch of bright orange meat fat floating on the top - that's how the locals like it. It contained one potato and one minced meat ball. It was ...

... girl student. She turns out to be Tamuna, the daughter of our hostess in Mestia, and is mentioned in the guide book. The walk takes us to the old town and up the hill, past old houses, a tiled mosque, and up towards the fort. A feature of the streets is the exposed steel gas piping, which runs typically 3 metres off the ground, zig zagging up the hill. Exceedingly ugly with a variety of sizes and shapes of pipe, joins etc. Pay ...

... stuff to buy in there. Indeed, I paid some Laris to the traders around, buying some souvenirs. I said that the best souvenir - wine - would be bought in the duty free shop, before departue. We ended our short shopping trip around Tbilisi in Rustavelli Square. It was amazing to see it. Rustaveli Square is an important sentimental square for the Geogians, which immortalizes Shota Rustaveli, Georgia's national poet. Rustaveli was born in the town of Rustavi in southern ...

... hour bus to tbilsi in georgia where my freind lives. unfortunately the first night i couldnt get ahold of him, so i resorted to staying in a run down hotel. the next day however i ended up meeting up with him. ever since then we have a had a blast. it has been over a year and a half since we have seen each other- we lived in germany together. so today we drove 5 hours each way to see an underground city, which was really cool, similar to that of capadocia but it was still a nice ...

... We had got a few days left, so we went to Mtsketha - Unesco world heritage center. It is quite nice, but don´t expect miracles. The most impressive thing was the meeting with huge snakes and turtles in the hills nearby. Georgia is an wonderful land with an various kinds of landscape. But what is the most charming fact about this country? People. Rule: The poorest, the most generous. I can truly recommend this country!

... perfume and deodorant can only do so much! My nose assailed by the overwhelming stench of human odour, thus I have steadfastly refused to ride the underground because I just do not think I could face all that body heat and unimaginable gas emissions. The ozone layer does not need help - the scientists have it all wrong it is not the little canisters we spray - it is the humans! In the spirit ...