Tag Archives: Georgia 🇬🇪

new cathedrals for brand new believers

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Tbilisi has several churches, but on top of that it also has one big fat towering cathedral. It’s this one: The Holy Trinity Cathedral was constructed only a few years ago, and when I went inside to take a look it had a shiny new atmosphere as if it had just come out of a […]


when the lights come on

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The doc had told me to rest, but he had said that regular walking was still going to be okay. I could go to the grocery store and back, to a donut shop, or even sightseeing – that kind of thing. So today I decided to go back to the Mother Of Georgia and take […]


Korean band-aid

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Remember how I have been having problems with my foot over the course of the last year? Well, it’s not actually that bad, but I don’t want to mess it up and cause any serious damage, which is why I’m always a bit cautious about it. So when I noticed an unfamiliar sensation that didn’t […]


speed is your life

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Again I needed to write something. This time it was for my German publisher, they wanted a foreword for a book about traveling. I had been struggling with this text for a little while, until I remembered the way I had written my books before: in the early mornings, with my phone and the computer […]


bike lane

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I had been wanting to stay longer, and I had been meaning to extend my stay, but I had recently developed a propensity towards indecision. And so in the end someone else had ended up renting the apartment, which meant that I had to leave. Luckily, I had managed to find a new place. So […]


(a) political society

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Remember the protest at the Parliament that I had told you about a few days earlier? Well, it was apparently still going strong, and the protestors seemed to have gathered more tents and more people: It often baffled me to think that this was the first truly democratic country I had walked through on my […]


the eleventh day

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November the ninth. I don’t know how many of you have read the start of this journey eleven years ago, but I started walking in Beijing on this day in 2007. It was my 26th birthday. Today I am in Tbilisi, Georgia, and I am 37: So I went and had Lebanese soup and hummus: […]


wallowing

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Tbilisi has at least two high points with a view. One is the “Mother Of Georgia” which is atop a cable car station. The other one is a bit higher, and there is a funicular taking people up a mountain. I went there today: The view at the top was more spectacular than at the […]


hot fighting mom

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I decided to do some more tourism today. So I went to the old part of Tbilisi: There was a park: And in the park there was a cable car that went up a hill, so I bought a ticket (it was actually just a metro ticket) and went up. The view was quite spectacular […]


is this tea?

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Okay, no literature club today. I went and got my fourth rabies shot. Why so many, you ask? Well, the doctors had told me that even though I had previously been vaccinated, I still needed to get five shots in total. So okay. I was still trying to regain my balance. And this might sound […]


Lev Tolstoy’s Dutch cucumber

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Today I did something that I had been missing out on for a long time: I ate some müsli: It was awesome. In totally unrelated news, I have been wanting to tell you about Tolstoy. Up until recently I had never read any of his books, and I think it was because he had always […]


the mushrooms I had made

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When I was at the supermarket the day before, I bought milk, butter, mushrooms, onions, cream cheese, tomatoes, pasta, pesto, a lot of fruits, lemonade, bread, nutella, laundry detergent, müsli, and a few other things I can’t remember. So I cut up the mushrooms and the onions: And then I fried them with a bit […]


spirited away

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I was going to move to my secret hideout today. So I said goodbye to my friends, got out the Caboose from under the stairway, and then I loaded her up and told her that the road was waiting for us once more: What I didn’t tell her: it wasn’t going to be that much […]


patched

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My tests had come back, and the results were good. Or rather: for me they were somehow disappointing, because they showed that I was healthy, which meant that there was no minor problem that a bit of medication would be able to cure. No, I was told, apparently I was just exhausted. And it was […]


hail the mushroom building

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It was strange that still, after all this time, I was feeling weak and sickly. This had been going on for a while now – ever since maybe the time when I had made it to Sheki. I wanted to know what was going on, and since I was at the hospital every few days […]


always agree on a price beforehand

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My pants were still in pretty bad shape. So I made the most awesome breakfast for myself: And then I took the pants (and my hat, which also had a hole in it) to the tailor: The owners agreed to put patches on them, then they went back to their game of backgammon, and I […]


no makeup

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I walked around a little bit more today. There was a viewing platform onto which someone had sprayed the words U ARE UGLY NOBODY LOVES U: There seemed to be EU flags all over town: And one time, I noticed an ad that featured the other Georgia: Annoyingly enough, this American Georgia seemed to pop […]


collision of cultures

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I had managed to arrive in Tbilisi on time, which meant that I had gotten my second rabies shot, and now was my time to rest. So I went outside and had another donut: Boston creme – the best kind. Then I walked around a little. Tbilisi seemed to have a strong meme game going […]


Tbilisi

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When I woke up, I noticed two things. Firstly, there was a mysterious new hole in my pants: And secondly, the bath salts that I was carrying around in a zip bag looked like something out of Breaking Bad: And then there was supposed to be Tbilisi. At first it was just a road sign: […]


what would Jesus do

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When I left the house in the morning, I knew it was going to be a long day. It was Friday, and I would have to be in Tbilisi on Sunday in order to get my next rabies shot. Tbilisi was still about 70 kilometers away, so today I needed to cover some distance. Shota […]