The main destination of our 2-week trip was to visit Georgia. While it is a neighboring country it is on the East-North point of Turkey while we live in the South-West, so it is not close by for us. This was our first time and we went by car so we had a thrilling time crossing the border. It took more than an hour, an unpleasant surprise was that only I was allowed to cross the border in the car as the owner, but my mother had to walk! It was not a 2 minute walk, a not fun part.
Paperwork took a while and after crossing I also had to get car insurance for Georgia. We there soon discovered that the Georgian people are not friendly.
While Batumi is called the Georgian Dubai, we only visited the old part of the city which was beautiful, but again not a single smiling face which was depressing.
No one speaks any English either, the alphabet and language is entirely unique, making it very isolating.
We absolutely loved the old city, we only were there for less than 24 hours as we still had a 5 hour drive to Tbilisi but it was a lovely visit.
There was also a delicious street pastry sold everywhere for a very reasonable price, the dough was very different and light which made for our breakfast/lunch.
I'm always a big fan of green streets and Batumi had several luscious shady streets.
We were in Georgia for a total of 5 days, I still have plenty to share :)
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