Nakvahmdis Tbilisi! (That would be farewell.) The time has sadly come to say goodbye to our little kitten, who is no longer little and already growing up. So grown up in fact that last week we experienced, for the first time, what a cat on heat is really like. Not an experience we want to repeat ever, ever again. We even resorted to Google for help (not so much of the ‘even’ really - we’re always googling something). Not surprisingly the question “how do...

Most cities, towns, villages, hamlets and bumps in the road have a square (or 2 or more). Tbilisi is no exception and there are probably quite a few. It makes it easy to say - ‘The Tour meets at the statue in the square’ for instance. Tbilisi’s main square is known variously as Liberty Square, Freedom Square or as far as we’re concerned, ‘that massive, hellish roundabout reeking of diesel fumes’ - albeit with a nice statue of St George in the middle...

We had such a cracking time on our last day trip we figured two weeks to recover was about right. In the run up to our next day trip we did our usual trundling about and accidentally roamed for miles after what was supposed to be a relaxed Sunday lunch. Turns out we can usually be found at one of our lunch haunts just about every Sunday - simply because it’s the day the Uni student who speaks English is on the counter. Since we’d enjoyed lunch, coffee and ...

If someone poses the question “If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you follow them?”, the usual response, albeit ill-considered, is “No! of course not”. But if you think about it for a second... “It depends” is a much more inclusive thing to say. In fact, if you’re snugged into a tandem paragliding rig then then only possible answer is Yes! But let’s put first things first. Roughly a week ago we finally left the confines of the city an...

Life is easy in Tbilisi - we have already rechristened the city The Big Easy of the East. It’s hard to believe we’ve been here a couple of weeks already and have quite happily fallen into a new routine. Go out to lunch every couple of days to one of our favourite haunts - between A$4-A$8... go out for Thai dinner once or twice a week - two mains, rice, beers... maybe A$20/€13... potter about the ‘hood hunting for groceries amongst various suppliers... th...