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Explore #244: Abandoned factory, Georgia – October 2018

Explore #8 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour On my final morning in Georgia, I bade a fond farewell to my exploring buddies and got a lift for the 3 hour journey to the airport with a friend of a friend’s father’s friend! The chap in question was a 60 year old Georgian who spoke as much English as I spoke Russian, but we still managed a very broken but enjoyable conversation of sorts by using lots of sign language and…

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** Bonus Post ** Road trip to Gergeti Trinity Church, including Kvetera Church, Russia-Georgia Friendship Monument, Ananuri Castle, Georgia – October 2018

Bonus Post #3 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour After exploring the Houses of Culture, we then took the long hairpin Russian military highway north towards the Russian border. Our destination was the beautiful mountain-top Gergeti Trinity Church, and this post shares my photos from there and a few other locations we stopped at along the way… ‘The Beast’ – our car for the week… We began our journey by taking a more interesting ‘cross country’ route, which involved unpaved roads…

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Explore #242: Three Houses of Culture, rural Georgia – October 2018

Explore #6 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour Continuing our Georgian road trip, we spent a great day exploring the countryside for abandoned ‘Houses of Culture’. These were once grand village halls / cultural centres which formed the hubs for community gatherings during Soviet times. We found three during the day, each with their own character… The ‘Blue’ House of Culture Our first find was this lost gem, abandoned on the outskirts of a small rural village. It was memorable for…

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