Kolkhi Tbilisi

Massively unimpressed with Tbilisi and tired from our miserable, we were eager to find our campsite for the night and moved on past Rustavi. By chance we came across a row of garages and decided to try and get the crankcase repaired as it was slowly leaking oil. Unsurprisingly, no one ...

... but the construction crew had left the door open so we still took a little "unorganized" tour...) and then wandered up in the direction of the church (yes, another old one) that overlooks the village. The fellow-hostelian and I decided it wasn't worth the effort long before we even really got started on the trail, but we got far enough to get some excellent pictures of the village and it's theoretical surrounding mountains...in the ...

... broken" St. Nino's cross: if you remove the circle from the famous hippies sign, you get the idea;). There is one more church in Mtskheta bit to the north. It is a part of a nunnery and lies in a garden. On the way there, a man suddently wants us to see his garden. He's weird but nice, so I give him a Prague postcard...and voila, he's been to Prague and shows me some old maps and photos for comparison. Funny. Our next destination is Jvari church sitting on a hill above Mtskheta. It ...

... 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 ...

... can't engage the quick photo upload so takes forever to upload a couple of photos. Move on to another internet, and find the operator a lot more helpful, gives us administrator privileges which are required to install ActiveX, and upload a lot of pictures. Have a break for a while to go to loo at MacDonalds. and get a shake and chips, back to find he is having a half-hour break. Up to the supermarket opposite MacDonalds. More ...

... in Georgia was Russian, and everyone was forced to study it at school. The advantage was that if you do speak Russian, you could find a Russian speaker almost everywhere - in case he or she is more than 30 years old. The younger generation prefer to speak English, and I will tell plenty about it later on. Unfortunately, neither me nor Michal speaks Russian, so the waitress had to find THE waitress who speaks English. After a while she finally came, and read the menu for ...

... lost track of the days of the week, I entered the eleventh century Sveti-Tskhoveli Cathedral, surprised by the Sunday services. A bearded monk greeted me at the cathedral gate. Inside, the choirs sang--first the men, then the women--with their mystical harmonies. The priest, using a long brush, whisked holy water on everyone, while altar boys gave unleavened bread to people. Sunlight beamed into the cathedral from the windows above, lighting the choir ...

... 15 min. premeeriti vastava arvu ühikutega, õnneks laternat ei saanud, sest polnud kuulutatud laternaaega... Kui juhatusest oli mõnel vennal koos paari muu tropiga hilinemise pärast suu kriipsus, siis ülejäänud ei stressanud, sest meil oli 2 kast - 4pudelit(taksoteenus) külma õlut, mida kõigiga lahkesti jagasime :) Pidu bussis sai taas hoo sisse... Edasi läks me sõit läbi ühe kohaliku perefirma, kus valmistati maiustusi ning lavassi. Maius oli tõsine magusa purakas. Mingid pähklid aeti ...

... it was a relief to get on a plane and I figured that I had already had had my share of potential disasters and if the flight dropped from the heavens well that was totally beyond my control. I missed Ethiopian Airlines I must admit as I went Kenya airways and KLM, which is extremely Dutch, and to add insult to injury Kenyan security took my little bottles of musk away - no liquid! Even ...

I took a bus from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Tbilisi (population 1.7M), Georgia, and spent 8 hours on the road ($7). I should have taken an overnight train, since there wasn't much to see along the way. I hired an unofficial taxi after I crossed the border to Georgia (only the 2nd country since I started my trip that didn't require a visa for US passport holder, the other being Mongolia). I nearly got into a fist fight with the driver. I realized that I agreed to pay too much money ...