We have fallen in love with the beautiful forests and mountains of Georgia.

We have also been driven mad by the drivers who take crazy risks on the roads and have no respect for any of the traffic rules on the road.

Over taking on blind bends, speeding, drinking and driving, cars that must in no way be kept on the roads and the casualness by which they play games with death here has been shocking to us. The amusing parts could be said to be the caws that treat the road as their own and just sit, walk or graze by the sides of them. Dogs that run mad alongside the cars is just part of the show.

The roads we have driven, some have been a true off-road training program forced on me without asking for it!  The country is being made into a non-socialist post soviet and has a long way to go yet as . We have seen a lot of  European union projects being implemented here on the roads at least (they are marked by the signs around these areas)

People are friendly and welcoming when you get to know them although they are very conservative on the surface.

These may be the wrong impressions but these are mine as I have experienced them in the last two days.

There will be a lot more about Georgia here soon but as time is short and access to the net proves difficult at times this has to be it for now.