Hotel Diplomat Tbilisi

... a pak vyrazili zpet na namesti hledat taxik k hranicnimu prechodu. Za ctyri tisice dramu jsme uhadali i taxikare s Mercedesem a vyrazili s nim tedy smerem k hranicim. Jizda to byla velmi prijemna a za necelou hodinu jsme stali u urednika, ktery nam znehodnotil armenske vizum a my doufali, ze Gruzinci nas vpusti to sve zeme stejne rychle. Bylo to naprosto bezproblemove a Ondra navic dokonce dostal skoro nabidku k snatku se slecnou policistkou. Hned jak jsme vylezli z ...

... by small streams coursing down it's flanks, patches of snow in other places and a fair amount of erosion and subsidance; not by the hand of man, but nature as far as I can tell. The rock is quite crumbly looking in a lot of places. Also, a good deal of the mountains that we saw didn't have trees, and no evidence of them having been cut, either. More wildflower heaven and more new flowers! There is an iconic church, Tsminda Sameba, on top ...

... to make ends meet. So the Red Cross was trying to help at least ease winter worries with blankets, flour, and so on. Most people come and pick up these items on their own after the organization has checked to make sure there are refugees living in the households, but they make deliveries to some of the more remote villages even farther up from Mestia. Anyways, tomorrow I think I'm off to Armenia! I'll update again when I get a chance.

... Tbilisi airport is newly built and modern. I have to wait there for the first public transport for three hours, but I'm unable to get some sleep since I'm the only tourist left there and therefore the taxi drivers keep on bombarding me with offers. Later, outside the airport, I find out there is a new railway link to the city! However, when at the same moment both the train and marshrutka (a public stop-anywhere Ford Tranzit on a preset route) come, all the people suddently run for the ...

... baku itself was good, though expensive. There were really decent shops for the first time and i went shopping for a couple of tops and a skirt - can't resist the sales - ignored Karen Miller and Gorgio Armani and went for Mexx instead. Also my big treat was a McDonalds. First since China or was it Pakistan, can't remember. But a Big Mac has never tasted so good, though I really don't want another one for some time. 5/. Bushcamped at some mud volcanos which were ...

... far as a roundabout with a strange statue, then decide to have a go on the metro, in spite of there being very little information. Pay our .40 lari, then take a really long escalator down to the station, DP wants a photo, but MP gets a negative from the guard. Ask a young woman on the station which way to Avlabari. Indicates which platform, then we see the route on the wall in Georgian and Roman, so know we are on the right track ...

... in this trip, we've spent at Irina's boarding house. And she did anything to please our stay there, and took care of anything we needed to go travel around her home country. A special thanks for a special lady was followed by entering a big blue taxi (that was ordered by Irina, of course). The grey skies of the Georgian capital was seen by us for the last time this trip. I can hardly realize that I will never visit Georgia again - it's still an option. The fact that we ...

... lifts and no one was on the mountain, so it was a real treat, i think on monday we are going up again for another day of skiing. however for the rest of my journey im still unsure as to what i want to do, im thinking of going down to olympos in turkey and seeing if i can get a syrian visa if not i may leave to africa in the near future... anyways i hope the easter bunny is good to you all, and i will certainly be missing my cadbury cream egggs and the ever so amazing purdys jellybeans.

... roll her eyes! Tbilisi is a beautiful city and relaxing at a street cafe with Tom, Liz, and Barbara was in order. Xerxes came later and joined us as we just absorbed the Georgian culture. That night we made our way up to the top of one of the hills in Tbilisi and ate dinner on a roof top terrace. It is a beautiful city all illuminated with amber, green, blue, and red lights.

... cauldron of such emotions because I can imagine how little it takes things to come to a boil. It is a country of contradictions, mystifying and unfathomable; rich in history and extremely beautiful but it is also stark and unforgiving. I cannot properly describe the feeling it evokes but for women it would be very close to the attraction to a very dangerous gangster who excites you but ...