Day 23 : Hopa to Batumi
After 16 hours in the bus I arrived in Hopa, a village at the Black Sea, a few kilometers from the Georgian border. My busride in Turkey in ten steps: 1. Get a ticket and explain that you want to take your bike on the bus as well. Discuss that and about the price via Google translate. 2. Organize a taxi which also takes the bikebox to the busstation. 3. Wait. Have fun with the lady next to you on the bench. 4. Hope they don't fuss about the bikebox again. (No they didn't, because the lady I chatted with helped me!) 5. Get your seat, try to not to get sick and alternate between sleeping, listening to podcasts, staring out of the window. 6. Never know whether a stop is long enough to run to the toilet. 7. Smoking is not allowed on the bus - unless you are the driver. 8. The crew (two drivers and one 'assistant') is the master over the bus. They wear black trousers and and white shirts, neatly ironed. They fix little incidental earnings, e.g. the 1...