Kolkhi Tbilisi

... blooming everywhere, a nice stream pouring down from above and then to have it spoiled with so much trash.<br><br>Georgian food is great and the people very nice and helpful most of the time; a woman doctor that I sat next to on the bus going into Mtskheta helped us find the place that we stayed. Unfortunately, the daily demonstrations for the last couple of months are really hurting the tourist business. The people want president Saakashivili ...

... but were greeted happily by three generations of Georgian women. We did most of the negotiating with the 9 year old, who spoke excellent English and showed us to our room. We spent the next few days exploring the city, enjoying Georgian meat dumplings and fried cheese bread, and getting lost. We were even able to fit in a night at the Georgian bath. Fortunately for your sakes ...

... region with quite dusty streets and is a mix of soviet style architecture (I imagine czech cities in the socialistic 70th to be like that), old buildings&amp;churches, neglected or totally destroyed places, renovated streets and houses, asia-like chaos and unreliability in traffic, small shops, street sellers, stray dogs, western shops on rebuilt avenues, russian signs in the old parts and latin script in the new ones, old broken ladas and brand new imported 4WD cars, parks ...

... i ahve to get really close to have any chance of hearing a word he says. Even when walking 6 or 7 feet behind him you can smell his breath but then he has just bought us lunch so god bless Zaza. 8/. New roomie - Cathy - nice lady but snores with a good cadence. After the nightclub in Ashgabat I shuffled into the bedroom and got changed into my PJs and the room was silent but as soon as I put my head on the pillow she started. I was getting obsessed with the ...

... we've been here. However, when we read the new paper, find that the Parliament suddenly, without notice, opened three days earlier, and people didn't have time to change their plans, so only about 50,000 turned up, rather than the 300,000 at an earlier demonstration. Hopefully all will be quiet today. Make a late start, then walk up the hill past our Metro stop, through rough, narrow streets, with a lot of perilous derelict ...

... which are ~0.3$), and the system is efficient. What do we need more than that? We arrived to the messy unorganized main station of Tbilisi - Didube. Not many buses are there, but the major transportation vehicle in Georgia which is commonly used, and has the cute soviet name "Marshrutka". It looks like a mini-van, and has place for 12-15 people, depending on the destination and hour of the day. And this - I said to Michal - will be our main (if not the only) transportation ...

Travel to Tbilisi<br><br>Tbilisi. this word means a lot: Hospitality first of all, Sunny, Warm, Nice, Old, Beautiful, Tolerant, Warm people, Devoted Friends, Good restaurants, delicios food, good wine, free soul, hot temperament, distinguished theatres, opera house ...

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... just call him 'friend') however had other plans. after asking us to stay the night at gunri's for a small monetary fee and a large hangover bill, and our refusal coz we wanted to get back to tbilisi and take the early but the next day to yerevan, Friend promtly announced that the last marshrutka had left. ah but the driver said he won't leave 'till 5pm, we say. so Friend makes a phonecall. now, i've long been a fan of the 'phonecall made on my behalf ...

... airline first to ascertain whether I would need a clear plastic bag, no liquids and could only carry a bag the size of a pea on-board. Guess what I took a whole bag, African style so packed to the brim - actually overflowing: my computer bag - I know that's technically 2 bags; a plastic bag full of books and ceramic bowls; (long story, but the bowls are fragile and I couldn't check them in ...