Despite arriving so late in the night, we were welcomed in and shown a nice room (although with two beds) and Djalma stayed up to talk to Giorgi a bit before crashing out.
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| From Kutaisi, Georgia |
We spent the next days chilling out, the rough feeling that started in Ushguli turned into a horrible cold so I spent lots of time in bed. We did find a bit of time to wander round the town, through the fruit and veg market and up to the main sight of Georgia's second largest city, a Cathedral under renovation. On our second to last evening there we met some characters, Anne, a brash, loud, determined Australian and a big Swiss dude with a fondness for Thailand (make what you like of that), the two did not get on at all and we had a very awkward dinner with the two of them and us. The next night we had an English couple Martin and Nicole, to diffuse the atmosphere along with a couple of bottles of home-made red wine from their cellar. It was a really nice evening and the Swiss guy was so drunk that whatever Anne rambled on about didn't annoy him enough to take much notice of her. We went to bed fairly late but with plans made for the next day to go out to the Monasteries at Gelati and Motsameta.
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| From Kutaisi, Georgia |
We had breakfast together and just before we left, decided to pack up and follow the road to Borjomi from the Monasteries. We drove to Gelati first, it was a beautiful building, or set of buildings with working going on that some of the padres were occasionally overseeing done. The views from the site weren't quite as good as the LP had us believe but it was pretty and inside the church was lovely.
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| From Motsameta and Gelati Monasteries |
We strolled around a bit before deciding to drive to Motsameta which was also under construction. This little set of church buildings was built on a rocky outcrop and although we couldn't see much around the surrounding rocks and trees were beautiful. We left soon after arriving – there wasn't all that much to see, an old lady pushing a broom round was more interesting than the church itself. We drove for a couple of hours before Martin dropped us off at a town not all that far from Borjomi and we said goodbye. They drove off in one direction and we strolled away in another – they were driving to Australia, doing almost the same trip as us but in a big 4x4 and properly equipped.
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| From Motsameta and Gelati Monasteries |
We eventually flagged down a car and got dropped off in the pretty green town of Borjomi.
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