Georgia

the country of Georgia

Thinking About Georgia? Consider These 10 Oddities Before You Go

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My first week in Georgia was spent in an outlying neighborhood of Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital city.

Many inviting, well-maintained parks are spread throughout the City of Tbilisi, such as this one nearly filled with Impatiens in the colors and design of the Georgian flag behind the Tumanishvilii Theatre.

Knowing little about my latest destination, I booked a hotel room in a section of the city called Isani.

My plan was to stay wherever this hotel was, while learning a little more about Tbilisi, this city of a little more than a million people, then rent an apartment I could actually inspect first to reside in for the next three months.

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Gone From Istanbul, Been to Barcelona, Now I’m in Georgia

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One of my favorite activities in Istanbul, Turkey, was riding the ferries across the Bosphorus and Golden Horn to visit the many different parts of this large and captivating city.

It’s been too long since I last posted. I was in Turkey at the time, which was two countries ago on my continuing journey.

For the past 11 days I’ve been in Georgia — the country, not the state — and before that I spent a week in Barcelona, Spain, where I visited a friend who I first met in 2017 in Medellin, Colombia.

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