A Farewell to Georgia

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June 12th 2016

Published: June 12th 2016

<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 139 Sunday 5th June 2016 – Akhaltsikhe to Batumi Moving day and once again Anna at the hotel served us up a huge breakfast complete with a strong Turkish coffee. Today we had the last joyous experience of chucking our bags in to the boot of a car in Georgia. Before heading off to Batumi we thought we would check out the Rabati, which is the ... Read Full Entry

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Tbilisi Museum

Gold Diadem from the 4th Century BC

Tbilsi Museum

Fancy Gold Earrings

Tbilsi Museum

Shot up train carriage

The grim statistics

Crumbling home

Made from solid gold

Weird Elephant lamp

Very weird eagle lamp

Tbilsi Museum

The Pain

13th June 2016

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

'we...started to aquaplane'!
I thought you were going to say you hit the poor cow... :( I love hearing of people's new favourite cities, so now that we are back home and have a bit more time to read than when we were travelling, I'll have to re-read all your Tbilisi blogs again. Looking forward to tales from Armenia :)

13th June 2016

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

The fun of travelling by bus in the wet
We were in a bus in Brazil that aquaplaned and ran off the road in the wet, and it isn't a very pleasant feeling. This Georgian bus trip was perhaps one of the more scariest we have done and we were sure glad we didn't hit the cow. And I guess the cow was happy about that as well, although it was walking down the middle of the road at the time.

13th June 2016

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

beach
that beach looks a bit on the scratchy side... :)

13th June 2016

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

Bondi it ain't
We both have "delicate" feet and found it incredibly painful to walk across what is in fact just river stones. Go through all this pain to discover that the water is freezing - not what we would call fun.

13th June 2016

taracloud
Tara Cloud

The new and the familiar
Traveling so often involves the excitement of discovering new places (the wild roads), but sometimes it's just so lovely to revisit places you love--Batumi, Tbilisi, restaurants and a favorite cat. How refreshing to discover museums with more than pottery shards and propaganda--well-done, Georgia!

14th June 2016

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

brokenpotteryitis
The museums in Tbilisi were so great because they were filled with lovely shiny things and with English text. I have seen so much broken pottery over the years that I have developed a phobia to it, and really don't want to see another piece. I absolutely love museums but over the years have become a bit of a snob about them and selective on which ones we go to - it maybe because of that fear of broken pottery. If in Tbilisi we can recommend there museums.

14th June 2016

taracloud
Tara Cloud

Suffering for shards
I worked in the sweltering jungle for six weeks on an archaeological dig in the jungle outside of Tikal, Guatemala, and for our grueling, exotic and beautiful 60 hours a week, we found only pottery shards. After we'd mapped what were probably houses and small temples in the dense jungle, we dug down to bedrock and sifted the dirt for 'treasure' that is, shards. Hard work but interesting. I then bailed as the others spent the rest of the boring summer putting the shards together.

14th June 2016

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

Going potty
All that hard work to have an idiot like me say "God no more pottery shards, I'm going potty". Yes I can appreciate the significance but it is my lack enthusiasm for fired clay. 10 points to you for doing the hard yards to find stuff I am bored with, and doing a job I am envious with. Please correct me if I am wrong but I would reckon finding it would be more exciting than looking at it in a museum.

16th June 2016

taracloud
Tara Cloud

So totally!
I so roll my eyes at potty shards in a museum! I want gold, gems and jewelry!

17th June 2016

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Moving day
Finding a hotel without drainage smells is always a plus. What a bus ride. It could have turned out very differently. We love to ride funiculars.

17th June 2016

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

Putting the FUN into funiculars
I always think you are having a great trip when the worst you have is bad smells from the bathroom (and not self generated). As for the funiculars, we just love them and I always think just about every mountain side site has to have that all a chairlift, and Tbilisi has both.

28th June 2016

traudy glasencnik
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locals!
Hey guys, always good to hear you have a new fav. Love the pic's and the cat. The scenery on the road to Batumi looks so green and lush. Love those little wooden houses and the big breakfasts /take away :)

28th June 2016

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

Strays
You know Shelley cannot help but befriend every bedraggled weird stray in the world, which is perhaps why she chose me. The scenery is pretty good in Georgia and Tbilisi is still our favourite town so far.

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