Hero

This has been my last day in Tbilisi. The trip home starts at 8am tomorrow. 

It has been a hot one. 28⁰c still, at 7pm. It is predicted to be 32⁰c on Sunday, so I am glad to be missing that.

In the morning I went to see a couple of guidebook “must sees” which I had not yet visited - both churches and so nice and cool. I still needed a beer afterwards.

I went back to the botanic gardens in the late afternoon, seeking some cooler parts. It worked too. 

I got my Blip there. I have not see one of these for a while. At my time of life squatting down is out of the question - I’d never get up again. Anyway, it was spotlessly clean. 

Extras… some street art. The sculpture is in Lado Gudiashvili Square in the Old Town. Much of the  Old Town is thoroughly dilapidated and needs a fortune spent to renovate it, but that is happening around this square. 

Lermontov Street, where I found the Big Blue Box, is just around the corner from my apartment. It is named after the Russian 19th century writer Mikhail Lermontov, for whom Tbilisi was an important part of his life.

Lermontov’s origins were Scottish. Learmonth. I remember reading one of his books (A Hero of our Time) at university.