Batumi is an extremely touristic town, with a well-deserved culinary fame. The city is home to an almost dizzying number of restaurants, some good, some not so much. With this short article, I want to share with you some of the finest places the city has to offer when it comes to more local cuisines. […]
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Poti is a particularly beautiful city for a lot of reasons, but the reason why some consider it to be a “Little Paris” has to do with the planned infrastructure of the city. It is very well organized and has been since day one. Frankly speaking, I opted to visit Poti in a whim after
Batumi is not the only place to go for a beach holiday in the Georgian coast, in fact, it may be the worst one for a few reasons. Due to its crowds, the sea is not necessarily the cleanest here, and that huge port does not help with that either. It is also pretty hard
Batumi is known for a lot of things, but arguably its botanical gardens are one of the highlights more people know about than anything else. Opened in 1912, this sliver of heaven on earth is well over a hundred years old, and the advantages of that for a botanical garden full of trees that are
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Batumi is a flashy town to wander around, but personally speaking, it does not offer much to a traveller who is not interested in gambling, drinking, glamour, or a mix of those. With that being said, it is in an excellent location to do a lot of exciting day trips from. For example, simply by
There has not been any other city in the world that I wanted to love as much as I tried to love Batumi but failed so miserably. Batumi is not a disaster, it is not a terrible city, it is also not completely “soulless,” but it is not for me. When I was riding a
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Nizhny Novgorod… The city where I spent eight months of my life and never regretted a single day of it. My dear reader, if you are reading these lines, it is likely that you are planning a trip to this wonderful city yourself. Perhaps, you do not know where to start. I too was in
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For a city with only a handful of Chinese and Indian oriented restaurants, Kazan sure offers a ridiculous number of Vietnamese joints to its denizens. Practically any mall has a spot or two offering at least some spring rolls, and Bauman Street is home to three Vietnamese restaurants that I alone could find. I am
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I love pizza. I just love it so much. I love its flexibility, its taste, often its price point, its familiarity. There is very little not to like about it in my book. That is why you keep seeing more of these “top pizzerias of” or “best pizzas in” articles regarding cities I visited. They
Tatars eat a ton of meat. Like, truly a ridiculous amount of it. So much so that you will find it ruining a lot of your orders if you were naïve enough to assume that the “cheese soup” you ordered “should not” have any meat in it… For those who are trying to stay away