I’d heard several times that Batumi is the Dubai of Georgia. And a couple of other times the Las Vegas of the Black Sea. My jaw sure drop to the ground as we turned a corner in full view of the peninsula that the resort city of Batumi sat, a skyline like nothing else in…

The dividing line between east and west Georgia is a giant concrete tunnel. Before and after the tunnel enormous concrete overpasses are being built to extent the highway, and all along them the workers offices are adorned in Mandarin . This is China’s Belts and Roads investment in action. Soon enough the grey concrete gives…

I was staying in a guesthouse, with my large impressive room off the side of the main house. The owner greeted us as the taxi pulled up, and showed us his garden overlooking the town, the quaint guest kitchen where grandma would make us breakfast, He next offered a taste of his home made wine.…

On the advice of the manager of Browns Bar, I made the trip to Borjomi a day trip to include heading south to Rabati Castle in Akhaltsikhe, and the cave city further south of Vardzia. I found a lot of recommendations for a private taxi service through GoTrip. I used a similar service in Uzbekistan…

Previously I found myself at a whisky expo, but it’s isn’t t whisky Georgia is famous for in the booze category, that would be wine. Humourously Georgia also boasts to be the oldest wine maker in the world, despite Armenia actually having physical evidence they are. I would learn from several Georgian locals that Armenian’s…

Both Georgia and Armenia have no shortage on churches and monasteries, dating back centuries or even a millennia. So from my base in Tbilisi, there were two I wanted to visit outside the city. Church hunting began with Svetitskhoveli Cathedral. It’s a really beautiful cathedral, I don’t normally think that of Christian churches as they…

The Cave Town, known as Uplistsikhe, is the oldest urban settlement in Georgia. Dating all the way back to 2,000BCE, humans have been living in these cave complexes up until the 14th Century when the highly friendly Mongols came knocking. For over 3,000 years this impressive area had ritual caves, wine making caves, and even…

If you’re consider driving in Georgia, all I can say is don’t. The whole of Australia is baffled by Melbourne’s unnatural road rules to turn from the opposite lane, but here in Georgia, it’s so much more mentally taxing here in Tbilisi, there’s kind of lanes for traffic, but they turn into on coming traffic…