Sunday, July 13, 2014

Weekend in Lagodekhi

One thing I love about travel is the completely random adventures that pop up if you stay open to them. For example, last weekend's trip to Lagodekhi with a trio of strangers who turned out to be fun companions with a loose travel style and taste for adventure.
 We drank beer in the park with random Georgian men (ok, they did--I knitted and zoned out to conversations I couldn't understand in Georgian and Russian). We got slightly overheated hiking to a waterfall, where it seemed like a good idea to get under the gushing water until we noticed the size of the rocks being chucked over the edge in the torent.
 We crossed some extremely sketchy bridges, including this one, which only went across half of the river. (We got wet, and that wasn't even the crossing where Billie accidentally threw her backpack into the current.)
And of course everywhere we went, we received typical Georgian hospitality, which included this interesting assortment of breakfast offerings: whole tomatoes, cream cheese, pickled flowers, a giant chunk of butter, and one bowl of frosted flakes and cocoa puffs, plus of course lots and lots of instant coffee.

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