Georgia, Day Twenty-One

In Tbilisi 

Today we did a morning-midday walk through the streets of the big city. 

Looking toward the fortress hill

An odd-shaped building with a pretty exterior and not much in the interior.

Your language lesson for today

The smaller of two “Church Shops” we went into with beautifully-made wares. They are in plain block buildings with little on the outside to indicate the sumptuousness inside. I came away with this - 

Handmade, embossed copper with a real silver overlay.

I did NOT get an engraved floor-stand baptismal font in silver and gold. But the prices would have made it worthwhile. 

A larger icon, in silver and gold for 520 GEL, which is about 175 $/Fr. It stayed in the store, too. 

Street art

Wall “art” on a shop exterior 

Gallery art in a shop window

Pomegranate tree “art”

Note the panda bear

Part of a large sidewalk flea market. We did not need jewelry, silverware, old cameras, cords, kebab skewer sets, daggers, rugs, old toys, coins and medals, or any of hundreds of other things. Fun to look though. 

It is HOT, so by this fountain, which some passers-by could not resist walking through…

…. at the Georgian version of Dunkin Doughnuts, some of us decided on  the one-and-only junk food stop…

Sweet.

I declined (we have all acquired off and on stomach upset again), but took a sip of the berry drink (it was real).

More walking

Then back to the hotel for rest. This is the high-contrast view out my room window.