We started the day with a hunt for breakfast and being Sunday, Sighnaghi was very much asleep. We went back to the cafe that found us a guesthouse and they were open and sold us some khachapuri and our other…
Horsing around
We chose to leave Kazbegi in a marshrutka or known to us westerners as a minibus. For me, it was a most uncomfortable ride as my knees wouldn’t fit in behind the seat and the driver took the hairpin bends like he didn’t…
Guide dogs
We started the day with gourmet breakfast of eggs, bread, salami, salad, potato cakes, and tea. Breakfast has generally been the least exciting meal of the day in Georgia, but this breakfast was delicious and filling. If you are in…
Kazbegi the musical
We left Tbilisi in much the same way as we started by having crepes for breakfast. Then we were picked up by our driver Emil and headed north along the Georgian Military highway. The first stop on the way was…
A Fortress, two cats and a gas mask
Today is our last day in Tbilisi and the last place on the to do list was the Narikala fortress that sits above our hotel. I can see it from the window in our room. If you read reviews online…
Blurred borders
We had a quick breakfast this morning of khachapuri and coffee, what every good Georgian has for breakfast I branched out into double cheese khachapuri, while Claire had the Georgian heart attack version with egg and butter. They bake these…
The Safer Georgia
A short flight from Baku to Tbilisi today, no sooner had some pastry been handed out to me on the flight, that we were soon descending into Tbilisi. I was in the country of Georgia, the safer of the two…