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Batumi
Walk the subtropical garden above the sea
Bamboo, eucalyptus and Japanese maple grow on a cliff over the Black Sea here, because this corner of the coast is wet and mild enough to keep them. The path runs along the edge. Photograph the sea through the bamboo.
Watch Ali and Nino pass through each other
Two steel figures, a Muslim boy and a Christian girl from the novel, move towards each other for seven minutes every evening, merge, pass through and separate. Nobody in the crowd leaves before they part. Photograph the moment they overlap.
Eat acharuli khachapuri where it comes from
The boat-shaped one with an egg dropped into the cheese comes from this province, not from Tbilisi. You stir the yolk and butter through the hot cheese with the torn end of the crust and eat inwards. Photograph it before you stir.
Tbilisi
Bathe under the brick domes of Abanotubani
The city is named after these springs — tbili means warm — and the bath houses are built underground with only their brick domes showing above the street. The water comes up already hot and smelling of sulphur. Photograph the domes from above.
Eat khachapuri in Tbilisi
Break open the cheese boat with its egg still running and photograph it.
Take bread off the wall of a tone
The dough is slapped onto the inside wall of a clay well sunk into the floor and pulled off with an iron hook when it blisters. It is sold within minutes of coming out. Photograph the baker reaching in.
Climb to Narikala over the old town
The fortress has been rebuilt by Persians, Arabs, Mongols and Russians in turn, and from its wall the old town, the sulphur domes and the new glass bridge are all in one view. Photograph the three together.