We’d had a cup of coffee in a cute cafe’s garden, surrounded by elegant old buildings; lunched on delectable Georgian pastry at a sidewalk table, watching folks walk past casually; depleted significant portions of the little shop’s shelves to fill several bags of provisions; topped up the car’s tank and our spare fuel container… And we were now ready to leave this pleasant town … [Read more...]

We landed at Tbilisi International Airport a late night in July 2021. As usual in small airports, a bevy of taxi drivers swarmed at us no sooner than we stepped into the tiny departure hall of Georgia’s principal airport. And more scurried to offer us a ride from an array of parked cabs before the terminal upon us exiting the building.We thwarted all of them, simply stating … [Read more...]