In August 2019 we were sitting in a Georgian restaurant in Kyiv. If that sounds odd, it isn’t. Georgian cuisine is delicious. And thanks to the internal migration which occurred within the USSR in the…
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From Telavi we literally crossed the country from east to west, to reach the lovely town of Kutaisi. We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit the deliciously named Gelati Monastery. Ten kilometres outside Kutaisi, UNESCO…
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The town of Telavi, population 20,000, is the administrative capital of the eastern Georgian province of Kahketi and sits bang in the centre of the country’s prime wine growing area. It’s a really pretty town…
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Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi is a city of contrasts. There’s the genteel Old Town. And then there’s the vibrant, cosmopolitan, modern city which has emerged in the decades since Georgia’s independence following the fall of the…
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In eastern Armenia, less than 15km from the border with Azerbaijan is the small town of Goris. We had hoped to take a share taxi but at the station we found there were none going…
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