Proper Georgia

Trip Start Aug 05, 2010

Trip End Feb 26, 2011

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Writing this some time later I realise that Kutaisi was my first real experience of Georgia. This being especially true when I was faced with a table full of bread, jam, cakes, yogurt etc for breakfast at the guest house. They then brought in warm khatchapuri (cheese filled bread) and an omelette! Don't think I upset them but not finishing that lot!

Managed to find a brewpub which was really good and decent food too. Got a little lost trying to find my way back on a local minibus in the dark but the locals were really good and got me back on track.

Visited a monastery (lots of them in Georgia) and think I may have hijacked a Georgian family outing as I got on a random minibus but got a free lift out of it. Back in town I passed time relaxing in the park watching the local nutters - a bit like the Parade Gardens but more edgy.

I guess people may want to know what certain aspects of daily life are like and I will discuss toilet paper. I tend to carry my own which almost resembles our bog roll at home. Georgians aren't stingy with theirs but it is very rough and looks like thin tree bark. The advantage though is that the paper has no perforations so allowing the user to select their preferred tearing point. I've also noticed that Georgians rarely go to the toilet which may explain the lack of WCs in towns.

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Kutaisi	Old house	Kutaisi	Gelati monastery + priest
Inside Gelati monastery Comments!	This door is supposed to be over 1000yrs old... Comments!	Hilly scenery, Gelati in distance	Mirzaani brewpub. A good discovery. Comments!