Kirsten's birthday and it brought the sun back as we headed towards Telavi where we had a homestay. We arrived in the middle of a huge storm and everyone was much relieved that we were not camping and were to stay in a deceptively large and grand house. Another huge feast was thrown topped off by the local wine and a 12 egg birthday cake (how you order them here!).
The next morning was free to walk around Telavi which the crew bought food and the on truck bar was stocked up. We then headed down the road for 2 very different wine tasting. The first was very informal as we tried 5 different wines in an old couples back yard. Was pretty interesting too and we bought 40 litres from them (not going to last long!). The second winery was more of a here's a glass of wine and have some strawberries place and very much more fancy. That evening we bush camped in a village field. This region of Georgia is definitely the rainy and windy part. The tents and us survived though.
We had a full day at the bush camp as the day was filled with party preparation. Pete and Zaza had order a lamb and had invited some of the locals to join us. Some of us cleared out the truck and sat in the sun whilst the boys played football against the locals and Pete, zaza, mike and Neill put a lot of TLC in to the spit.
6 hours later and we had the locals and the food ready. The lamb was tasty and completely different to lamb eaten before so I'm glad I tried it even if there was some reluctance! The locals were nice but making conversation was more than an effort as they didn't speak any English and we didn't know any Georgian. I managed to figure out that i was very tall and some man telling me that it was too cold to wear flip flops and it was!
Good evening and many of us nursing hangovers on the truck journey to Tbilisi the next day!
Photos: wine tasting. mike and the lamb.
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