After spending six weeks tootling around the country, we completed our Georgian experience in its capital city Tbilisi. Favourably located at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, Tbilisi was a hub along the Silk Road, the network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Naturally, powerful empires throughout…
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I am happy to report that Batumi was an anomaly – the rest of Georgia is wonderful and quite the adventure when self-driving. I won’t go into the specifics of Georgian driving habits again, you can find those in our previous post, but will share the rental agent’s reaction when we returned the car. Speed…
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For 29 days we navigated our way across roughly 2000 kilometers / 1242 miles of Georgian roadways. We will have a full report next week, but for now here’s a taste of what it’s like to drive in this former Soviet republic. We rented a car through LocalRent, an aggregator working with small companies that…
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The Eastern European country of Georgia may not be on your radar – it certainly wasn’t on ours – but it frequently pops up as an “undiscovered gem.” Since we were revisiting Istanbul this year it worked well to hop over to this country bordering the Black Sea, and determine for ourselves whether that idiom…
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