The wind drove us from the tea plantation and we began an overnight move with no fixed plan. A border crossing with a surprise included, Batumi full of contrasts and an ending with cakes, candles and a camper in calm.
🇬🇪 Georgia (საქართველო) – 🛡️ Global Tracking 2026
🇹🇷 Crossing Turkey
🇬🇪 A few days in Georgia
Has it ever happened to you that you arrive somewhere and feel like you've smelled that tree before? Well, today we’ve had a déjà vu that smelled of rotten eggs, police officers in a rush, and a meadow that was absolutely breathtaking.
Today the camper feels a little bigger and quieter because Uncle Joan has headed for home, but Daddy Edu and I have drowned our sorrows among Soviet concrete and a high-altitude hideaway.
A staircase hanging from a cliff face that induced vertigo just by looking at it, and a city wedged into a valley full of floating cabins and rusty cables. The journey through Georgia continued amidst Soviet heritage and a wind-swept secret hideaway.
A thermometer in forbidden zones, a month of dirty laundry going round and round, and a wad of roubles obtained in a dark alley. Crossing into Russia requires overcoming an obstacle course of people that nearly leaves us breathless.
A mass of stone fit for giants, a road that makes you dizzy just looking at it on the map, and snow in the middle of May. The journey north continued among slow lorries and tunnels that look like they’ve been pulled straight out of a horror film.
🇷🇺 Passing through Russia without GPS
A spontaneous camp a metre from my pillow, the dreaded X-ray scanner and a form that looked like a hieroglyphic. Crossing the Russian border turned into a game of infinite patience where the soldiers turned out to be as nice as ninepence.