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Finally in Georgia, differences to Turkey, and climbing with Isarne and Humpelino (June 2023)

Finally we made it out of Turkey into Georgia! When I had started my journey in December 2021, Georgia had been the first country I really wanted to visit. Of course the other countries were all nice as well but Georgia was always special to me. It looked just awesome in the videos and photos. And for me it is the country between the West and the East.

I often thought: from Georgia eastwards the real adventure will start.

Immediately after crossing the border between Turkey and Georgia, we felt the difference: no singing/ chanting of Imams, alcohol everywhere, the people were dressed more revealingly, and although we met a lot of lovely people, some people seemed to be a bit grumpy.

After visiting old friends of Cindy near Batumi we continued to continue our traveling only with Rosinante and would pick up Thor some weeks later.

The weather got better and better and we decided to try the first climbing area in Katskhi. I did not have any climbing equipment at that point but we met again with Isarne who we knew from Cyprus and they borrowed me one pair of their climbing shoes.

Climbing was awesome and I loved how much it fits into the car and nature live. It was awesome to wake up, have some breakfast and just walk some hundred meters to the first climbing wall. And all of that together with very good friends.

Katskhi itself is an interesting spot for sightseeing as well: they have a chapel on a big stone pillar. Although it is not allowed to climb up there, it looks awesome.

And again we found some dog friends. Especially Humpelino was a nice companion. He got his name because he was limping and the German word for “limping” is “Humpeln”.

Yolo found a new friend, a new home and a big gang of cows (June 2023)

Yolo was doing very well after Cindy had saved her from starving a couple of weeks ago. Taking her with us was not really an option and so Cindy said that maybe we would find a new home for her at some point.

During our time at that nice spot at Van Lake, every day a young cow shepherd came along. He was a very nice guy and loved playing around with Yolo. Sometimes Yolo was even running around with him while he was taking care of the cows.

After some days we thought that maybe he would be a good friend for Yolo and asked him if he would like to keep her once we left. He got excited about that and after we made clear that we wanted a really nice home and friend for Yolo and that he would have to take care of her for a long time, we left Yolo with him and the gang of cows he was taking care of.

It was a bit sad to leave Yolo because we had such a great time with her. But at the same time it felt absolutely right to leave her with the nice shepherd to have a proper home and family.