Two days in a city that has been burned down twenty-nine times and rebuilt every time slightly differently. Wooden balconies, brick sulphur domes and Soviet concrete inside one walk, and the best natural wine list between Vienna and Beirut.
- A private sulphur room in Abanotubani, before breakfast
- Natural wine with the person who made it
- Old town balconies with the architect putting them back
Day by day
- Day 01
Sulphur, brick and wine
A private room in the Abanotubani baths at nine, before the city is up. Breakfast after, not before. Then the old town with an architect who is putting its balconies back - which is a different walk from the one the guidebooks describe. Natural wine at six with the person who made it.
- Day 02
Concrete and the flea market
Chronicle of Georgia at sunrise, empty, sixteen pillars and nobody else. Then Soviet modernism by car: the Ministry of Highways standing on its own legs, Bank of Georgia, the Palace of Rituals. Dry Bridge market at noon for other people's history. A chef's table to finish.
What is included
- Your tamada both days, on foot and by car
- The private bath room, the architect, the winemaker
- Breakfasts, the wine evening, the chef's table
What is not
- Flights
- Travel insurance
- Whatever you buy at Dry Bridge, which will be more than you planned
The practical part
- Where you sleep
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Stamba or Rooms Tbilisi, both in the same courtyard, one night
- When it works
- All year. In July and August it is 35 degrees at three in the afternoon, so the walking moves to the morning and the evening and the middle of the day is yours.
- The pace
- Walking, mostly. One short drive on the second morning.
Tbilisi, Slowly
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