Subject: Post: <p>Reaching Mestia over the mountains was actually not so bad as expected. The road was a paved road in decent condition, just some random ice and fallen rocks on the road. The mountain road took just some two-three hours and we arrived in Mestia. Maybe it was even easier to drive at night, not seeing the steep cliffs outside the narrow road..</p><p>Earlier today we shopped local SIM cards, 20 GEL ( Some 7.50€ ) for 10GB of data. Pretty decent compared to the roaming pricing of my Finnish operator, 13€ per one megabyte here..</p><p>Lunch was had in a strange restaurant outside the city, I guess the place was usually used for big wedding parties and such things. Now they were obviously preparing for Christmas party, and we were the only daytime guests in the huge restaurant. As always in here, one does not simply have a small snack: The portions are huge.. And good.</p><p>Before departing towards Mestia we visited Prometheus Cave near Kutaisi, it's a 1.4 kilometers long cave full of stalagmites. The cave was only recently discovered and has been open for tourists a couple of years. As it's not really a tourist season in here, the place was completely empty for us. :)</p><p>On the way we spotted and visited some random old abandoned buildings, most of them from the Soviet times I guess.. Old factories, an old abandoned sanitarium and so on. By the way, I like the car. The V8 engine sound puts a smile on my face, and I just have to use every opportunity to do some stupid offroad driving. :)</p><p>At the moment we have a minor (or not so minor, it's bear size) problem. We went out to have a dinner in Mestia, and on our way back a huge dog joined our company. The friendly dog decided to park himself outside our guesthouse room, so.. He's now happily sleeping there. Wonder if he's going to wait for us until the morning. :P</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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