May 26, 2009

Cycling in and around Tbilisi, Saturday 23rd of May 2009







This time I managed to bring my Brompton folding bike with me to Tbilisi from Denmark, and my Bulgarian colleague Vlado and I agreed to take a trip on our bikes Saturday.

The Turtle Lake just south of Tbilisi is a very popular site for recreation and we agreed to go there. On the way we visited the Tbilisi open land ethnographical museum, with many interesting houses from Georgia past.

From Turtle Lake we continued over the mountain ridge with magnificent views over Tbilisi down through some pine woods and over fields until we found the way back to Tbilisi.

Then it went fast down hill until we arrived to Tbilisi old town. On our way to the Vake District though the main street we passed the ongoing demonstrations against the president. A lot of tent or cells were situated on the main road opposite the parliament. No much activity was going on, and the few people around the cells were more active in socializing with each other than agitating against Saakasjvili.

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