18/09/2025

It was a surprisingly quiet night with the sound of the waterfall drowning out any truck noise.

A 15 minute drive to the border, with a quick stop to buy water. We were through the border into Georgia in 35 mins. J had to walk through.

We drove to Batumi. I’d not intended to visit, it as it is a holiday destination, but the old town was lovely. Once we had managed to find somewhere to park!

The reason for going to Batumi was to get a Magticom sim and some cash. The Magti sim was £12 for unlimited data for a month and so far seems fast.

We tried to stop at Carrefour but couldn’t park, so stopped at a small supermarket to buy wine and beer. Felt we needed to celebrate being in Georgia, so our dry week was only 5 days.

On a very basic campsite for 2 nights to shower and do laundry. Seems to be a shower hose over the toilet and I’ve been warned it’s not hot! But my hair definitely needs doing.

Laundry

19/09/2925

Late up. Rain did not encourage us to rise. But then then the sun made an appearance so all the laundry went onto the clothes airer. I was about to tackle the bedding, but with dread as the twin tub spinner has stopped working. Quite a work out for J and I to hand wring. We did it the first year full timing, but as soon as we got back to the UK, I bought the twin tub. To be honest, it is 9 years old, so doesn’t owe me anything. I was filling the watering can and the campsite owner offered to drive me to a laundry about 5 km away. 2 large machine loads was only £4, but wash only as their drier broken.

We wandered into to local town along the promonade. Had a late soup / omelette lunch … and 2 very large glasses of wine each. Wine rubbish but how lovely to be able to order booze out … other than our side trip to Dublin, all meals out have been dry for 2 months.

Whilst out, our fabulous campsite owner messaged … he was off to collect our laundry. Could I pay him for his time and fuel? No, but he wouldn’t mind a bottle of beer. So we found a shop in the town and carried back 2 bottles, but they are 2.5 litres each. He seemed pleased. And I’m pleased to have all the laundry done. I’m not so pleased that I can’t get it all dry … it’s back to piss-cipation again until Monday.