Tuesday 27 May 2014

Day 1 : Tbilisi, Georgia

A good night's sleep - that was much needed. Why is travelling so tiring when you're just sitting on your posterior, idly watching the Lego movie without sound?  We made up for it today though with some serious pavement pounding. 
 





First things first though : metro (with an Oystercard equivalent kindly supplied by our guesthouse host) negotiated from Liberty Square stop to the main station.  I'm not sure the Tbilisi tube escalators would pass EU health and safety as they fairly whizz up and down and are steeeep.  The tube trains on the other hand are top-notch: spacious and airy. And 0.5GEL (circa 17p) buys you a trip.  Live and learn, LUL...

At the train station, a speedy transaction to buy two berths on the overnight train down to Yerevan in Armenia on Thursday night.  So far, all very efficient so fingers crossed.

Then we headed around town, getting our bearings around the main (Liberty) square, where the gilded George and dragon replaced Lenin, 



theatre (sadly under renovation), 


 churches,





parliament, flying banners for the very recent independence day celebrations.


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