Georgia - 2nd September 2017 - General Thread

Joe Stalin wrote: Have I understood correctly that the stadium is slap bang in the city centre and therefore walking distance from where most of us would likely be staying?

nope, you'll need to get a mental taxi driver

Braveheart wrote: A couple of years ago I was there with Scotland but used an opportunity to travel all around for a week. Lovely country, very nice people, great food and very cheap. If anyone is staying a few days in Tbilisi, I can highly recommend some of tours offered by Envoy hostel there http://www.envoytours.com/georgia/tours/ - I did two of those (Embracing Georgia and Essential Georgia) and we also arranged our own Mtskheta tour before we were dropped in front of the stadium. In any case, enjoy Tbilisi! I wish I could be there again

Did you stay with Envoy Hostel?

Saint Tom wrote: Braveheart wrote: A couple of years ago I was there with Scotland but used an opportunity to travel all around for a week. Lovely country, very nice people, great food and very cheap. If anyone is staying a few days in Tbilisi, I can highly recommend some of tours offered by Envoy hostel there http://www.envoytours.com/georgia/tours/ - I did two of those (Embracing Georgia and Essential Georgia) and we also arranged our own Mtskheta tour before we were dropped in front of the stadium. In any case, enjoy Tbilisi! I wish I could be there again  we enjoyed your last trip to tbilisi too

Anyone remember any good wine brands to drink? Or good wine bars? There's a microbrewery that's opened up since we were last out, so possibly some decent beer to be had. Black Dog Bar and Drunk Owl Bar are 2 city centre craft beer bars, also seems to be a brewpub called Bernard, just off Freedom Square. 

irish_goat wrote: Anyone remember any good wine brands to drink? Or good wine bars? There's a microbrewery that's opened up since we were last out, so possibly some decent beer to be had. Black Dog Bar and Drunk Owl Bar are 2 city centre craft beer bars, also seems to be a brewpub called Bernard, just off Freedom Square.

Now we're talking

colmoc wrote: Joe Stalin wrote: Have I understood correctly that the stadium is slap bang in the city centre and therefore walking distance from where most of us would likely be staying? nope, you'll need to get a mental taxi driver

Word of warning regarding the metro. The Latin alphabet is non existent and there's no ticket machines or at least there was none at the metro stop near freedom square. I can't vouch for staff at the ticket office (if they're over the age of 40 then the chances of them speaking English is virtually zero) because we felt there was no point going any further when we hadn't a notion which stop was the one we wanted. I didn't see a "tube" map either. Bare in mind I'm someone who uses the London tube on a daily basis and have without issue used underground metros all over Europe. The underground in Tbilisi is one you need to do a bit of research on before embarking on your trip.

http://mapa-metro.com/mapas/Tbilisi/mapa-Metro_Tiflis.svg.png

You'll find a dual language tube map above.

Edited by colemanY2K - 21 Aug 2017 at 4:49pm

Ya it looks like they've done a bit of work with the signage. Think I'll give it a go myself. I was probably need to get to didube station next Friday if I decide to visit kazbegi.

Edited by colemanY2K - 21 Aug 2017 at 4:58pm

AKOT wrote: [QUOTE=deebee]Walking tour of Tbilisi . The start point for our tour is Freedom Square in front of the Old Town Hall (pink building with the clock tower on the top), at the Burberry store. Friday 3pm  Deebee  Ringerbell +10 kevincronin2000 +1 Irelandfan +1 Horsebox Hickster74 +1 Tyronebhoy Irishmufc SuperDave84 +1 cardwizzard Gufct + 1 fr larry duff +1 Bogball newrynyuk Denis Vahey +6 JimmyJohnstone CliffRichard BabbsBalls alane Irishgoat Proud n Loud +1 AKOT