I'm playing a bit of catch-up here in my blog posts. We traveled to Tbilisi last Friday, June 11 to get a tour of the Peace Corps office, meet the full-time PC Georgia staff and get our first real chance to explore the capital a bit. As always, we had to arrive back at our host family's house by 7pm. Given the sometimes challenging unreliability of transportation options, we had to be sure to give ourselves plenty of time to make the usually 2.5 hour journey back to the village, which didn't leave us with too much time to traipse around. Even still, we had a great time strolling around, getting ourselves lost in the old town and happily finding a Russian
blini restaurant for lunch.
In all, we're happy with how we were able to figure out the city a bit and looking forward to going back. Here are a few of the shots we got in Tbilisi during our short trip.
An old church in the Old Town
My new favorite graffiti
Old balcony in Old Town
Statue of St. George in front of the town hall
Nice juxtaposition of Soviet Realist art and a Coca-Cola ad, don't you think?
Cool old wall thing
Would any trip be complete without a self portrait?
Parliament building
View up to the hills from Rustaveli Street
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