Postcards from abroad
After our mountain adventure, we had a night in Tbilisi in a different area to the Old Town (which some readers had found depressing). The nineteenth century district Chugureti was settled by Swabian Germans and Poles from around 1820. By the 1930s there were about 24,000 people of German descent in Georgia but they were… Continue reading German Tbilisi and off to the wine region
A route through the mountains to Russia has existed since before the first century BCE but it had only existed as a bridleway until 1783 when 800 Russian soldiers converted it into a carriageway. Everyone has been along it - Gorky, Tolstoy, Chekhov… and now Wilby and Zukas. We chose to be driven rather than… Continue reading The Georgian Military Highway