Discovering Turkey and Georgia

Today it was cycling along lintbebouwing,  ribbon development. One house next to the other. Each house has two stories and is fenced, because the cows, chicken, pigs, horses run free in the garden. All these animals are part of the community and of the traffic.  Though the houses are a bit shabby, they exude some charme due to little details. For example the cast-iron fences, the abundant vegetation, an ornament of the rainwater pipe, or a bench with a green roof at the gate. I found a nice place to heat up some Georgian food I bought earlier for lunch. The police was approaching the same spot - I think I took their favorite picnic spot ;-) Getting closer to one of the largest spa towns of the former Sovjet Union, Tskaltubo , I came across a lot of faded glory from different periods. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 many bathhouses and sanatoria were abandoned.  Some sana...

The local baker was doing his morning exercises. Making shotis puri , the traditional Georgian bread which is baked in a deep circular clay oven. There was a wind of 65 km per hour, I think that could be called storm. I never cycled with such a strong wind and was glad that there was barely traffic on the roads and paths. Wind guts came from all directions. Sometimes I had to get off my bike not to be blown from the street. I walked quite a bit, leaning against the wind.  So cycling was no fun today. The average of today: 10 km/h. With some nice views. And varying underground...  After 45 km mostly against the wind I was ready to stop. The entrance of the local hotel was again not really visible. But the room was okay. Finding food wasn't that easy here. Except for the usual fast food (dürüm, khachapuri or other things with bread) there was no restaurant willing to serve something. Luckily I h...