6/21/2008

Banana Republic

About five weeks ago I was in Batumi, Georgia. I hadn't been there for two years, so it was nice to be back.

The semi-Carribean banana republic athmosphere was as always present in the streets of Batumi, complete with palm-trees and other (sub)tropical plants. Bright-coloured colonial houses mixed with run-down, though brightly painted Soviet tenement blocks.


Just replace the second-hand German cars with 1950's oldtimers and you would have Havana on the Black Sea.


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