Category: overlanding

Wonderful friends and creating together at Hof Marani in Georgia (December 2023)

We met again with Isarna, Adela, Alvaro, Roxane, Vincent, Regina and Gerold at the unique and wonderful Hof Marani.

It was so awesome to meet everybody again and spend time together! We had a lot of fun building a mosaic, a light for the entrance sign, making wine and Chacha, cooking, eating, drinking and just being together!

But at the same time it was our last time together in this group because afterwards we would go for a border run to Turkey, the french and Isarne would go west, the spanish east and Regina and Gerold would stay at their Hof Marani.

If you ever have the chance, go and visit the Hof Marani. It’s such a wonderful, creative and mind changing place. They built unique things like a house out of glass bottles, a house decorated with cans and bottle caps and everything is different. And they have a whole gang of animals. Chuchuna, the horse, sometimes even breaks into the kitchen to steal some food!

Thor gets Georgian license plates (December 2023)

Our plan was to spend the winter in Gudauri, the biggest ski resort in Georgia.

Racki wanted to find a job there and I was looking forward to learning snowboarding.

So we decided to get the temporary Georgian license plates for Racki’s car Thor. These ones are valid for three years and with them we won’t need to make a border run every three months.

The process of getting them was partly confusing and did take us about five hours in the offices in Rustavi.

If you ever want to do it, stick to this order:

  1. Technical inspection (if you have a camper car, you need to get a special document there which says you have a car of the category “special”)
  2. Getting a tax number
  3. Document that says how much you have to pay
  4. Paying at the bank office
  5. To another desk which checks everything and gives you all the necessary papers
  6. Getting license plates

It may be a good idea to have a friendly Georgian on the phone who can explain and translate when getting stuck in the process.