Tag: Georgia
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Caucasus By Train: UK To Georgia/Armenia In Under A Week (Part Three)
This is Part Three of my account of travelling by train from the UK across Europe and Turkey to the Caucasus. If you just got here, start with Part One, which details the 72-hour journey from London to Istanbul. The final part of this series is all about how to do it yourself – that…
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Caucasus by Train: UK To Georgia/Armenia In Under A Week (Part Two)
This is Part Two of my account of travelling by train from the UK across Europe and Turkey to the Caucasus. If you just got here, start with Part One, which details the 72-hour journey from London to Istanbul. Otherwise, continue reading to find out how I got from Istanbul to the Georgian capital of…
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Help Tom Finish What He Started
I’m writing this post from a rural guesthouse near the city of Sisian in southern Armenia, where I’ve just finished a lovely breakfast of freshly-picked raspberries, cheese curds, sour cream, new season honey, and gata (a type of regional sweet pastry). Yum. This guesthouse, run by Mher Azoyan and his family on the site of…
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Caucasus by Train: UK to Georgia/Armenia In Under A Week (Part One)
Planning a trip to the Caucasus – perhaps to hike some of the Transcaucasian Trail – but concerned about the carbon footprint of flying there and back? I’m with you. Hiking has a small environmental footprint (depending on your shoe size). Air travel has a big one. But the good news is that, if you’re…