The Weird and Wonderful things about Georgia
With its fabulous food, stunning scenery and charming ways, Georgia is without a doubt a great place to visit. It’s cheap, very cheap, and – just to top it all off – it has some weird and wonderful oddities, that I thought only right to share. 1) Wine: The Georgians make plenty of their own vino… A lot of it tends to be sweet (even th...
Continue ReadingGeorgian Wine: The Best, the Worst and the Rest
There aren’t many places in the world where you walk into an off-license to buy wine and walk out with a belly full of moonshine. But that’s Georgia for you. We learnt of the country’s booze loving ways before we even set foot on Georgian soil. A lovely French jewellery artist, who we met in Turkey, gave us ample warning. Cooing about mona...
Continue ReadingClimbing to Gergeti Glacier, Kazbegi, Georgia
Almost a month into our big journey across central asia, I have learnt three things about travelling with boys: 1) Boys like climbing things. Matty on a rocky crag in Ani, Turkey 2) Boys like shooting things. The Mongoose even found something to shoot at the top of the Citadel in Budapest 3) Boys are not as good as girls at asking for things. I was brave eno...
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