Day 21 Udabno to Sighnaghi, Georgia. Vines, Nuts and Religious Nuts. After a breakfast of coffee, bread and Mars Bar, we paint sketches of Udabno towns stark buildings and landscape here within a moorland plain, in pleasant isolation. As we drive north away from Udabno for a day’s outing in our hire car, we notice landmarks which we failed to spot on our entrance to town. There’s a miniature Svaneti tower build above the sign board for the town at the side of the road. It’s relatively new, as a monument to the eco migrants who came here. It is clearly the right shape, like those we saw in Mestia in 2016, but with lighter construction as a monument rather than a place to retreat to in times of attack. Over the next range of hills
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