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Into Georgia

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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!

A wide leafy boulevard along the beach. The town planners had foresight not to allow hotels right on the beach
Not seen one of these before. Also lots of boxing booths
Batumi Tower: tallest in Georgia at 200m. Built 2012 …
… with a ferris wheel near the top!
Alphabet Tower: celebrating the uniqueness of the Georgian alphabet and people
Ali and Nino monument. He is Muslim, she Christian. At 7.00 p.m. they move for 10 mins. Merging and separating. Symbolising eternal love
Astrological clock
Beautiful restored buildings
We also saw the less attractive Soviet style apartment blocks, similar ugly functional design to those we saw in Slovakia

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 all hanging in the shower and off every hook inside as the heavens opened. And now the twin tub spinner has stopped working, so it’s actually all dripping

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.