At the start of our trip the weather was OK
Everywhere in Georgia you see herds of cattle or sheps with their herdsmen
The worn down restaurant in the former soviet shopping mall
When we reached the Algeti reservoir the we were so wet that we ready to give up
Our new Georgian friend, David, helps us getting our bikes out of his car
After a previous weekend with heavy rain, the weather forecast for Sunday did not look to bad so Vlado and I decided that it was time for the first cycling event of the season.
We decided to go to the region of Lower Kartli, just south-west of Tbilisi. Dima drove us to the mountains outside of the town (we just managed to pack ourselves and our bikes in his old VW Golf).
The clouds were a little bit low but we stated our cycling in a good mood.
After a couple of hours cycling in the nice landscape, we reached a town, where we found something like a restaurant (in a very worn-down previous soviet mall), but with friendly service and nice khatchapuri.
An hour after we stated cycling back towards Tbilisi it started raining, and after some hours it was pouring down. We were out of coverage of our mobile phones, so we could not phone Dima and asked him to pick us up. We tried to get with the last minibus for Tbilisi, but it was not able to take our bikes.
Then we stopped a Ford Transit van and asked the driver how much he would charge us for driving us and our bikes to Tbilisi. He said that he would be happy to drive us there, but would not accept any money for it, so he drove us through the rain to our place in Tbilisi – a very nice example on the famous Georgian hospitality.
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