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What a lost place: a night in Tskaltubo (July 2023)

The next day we went to Tskaltubo. What a place!

It’s an old, lost rehabilitation area from the Soviet times and it’s absolutely fantastic to visit it.

The whole area is as big as a small town and it’s full of abandoned buildings. Some of them are as big as hotels and some of them are not completely abandoned.

When we walked through one of these empty buildings out of the sudden one door opened and an elderly woman stepped out on the floor in front of us. Pretty exciting experience.

We parked Rosinante in the yard in front of one of the buildings and slept for one night in a kind of a big balcony.

When we were exploring this huge lost place, a real gang of stray dogs accompanied us. At times we had thirteen of these fellows with us. And everyone of them had thousands of parasite friends with him.

Before we left that place, Cindy cut the fur of one of them because he was towing a big bunch of it behind him and collected all sorts of stuff while doing so.

See it on Google Maps.

Visiting Kutaisi with friends, dancing to Georgian pop music (July 2023)

Our next stop was Kutaisi. There we met again with Ani and Zdenko and we got to know Ani’s couch surfing host who was a very nice guy from Russia who now lived in Georgia.

Together we went for dinner, explored the small city and we went into a rock bar. Unfortunately there was nothing going on in that rock bar. And when the waitress realized that we were from Germany, they started playing Rammstein. It was a pretty weird visit to that rock bar.

And we got onto a small festival in the main park of Kutaisi and danced to Georgian pop music. It was hilarious and so much fun!

Rosinante needs a recovery (June 2023)

Ani continued her journey and took the mountain pass we had taken before we met her.

Cindy and I wanted to go to a waterfall. On Google Maps the road leading there looked like a proper road. On Open Street Maps it looked different and a bit off-roady.

We decided to give it a try and quickly ended up in a famous off-road track. Rosinante did very well going up the small mountain on the very rocky track with a lot of stone steps.

Once we reached the upper part of the mountain, the track turned into a field of mud. Several cars already got stuck there and so did we with Rosinante. The first time, we managed to get her free on our own. The second time we asked somebody else to pull us out. After that we decided to park Rosinante at a nice spot and walk the rest of the way to the lake.

Suddenly while walking the track, Cindy recognized that she had lost her phone. We went back and looked hard for it. And we found it. It was just lying on a big metal pipe we had crossed before. And to both sides of the pipe there was water but the phone was just lying there in the only dry spot of the pipe. Several off-road cars must have crossed the pipe as well, but we just could pick it up again.

The lake was very beautiful and on the way there we saw one of the old UAZ Buchanka you can see often in Georgia. I love them.