A Taste of Georgia - Tbilisi to the Caucasus Mountains

The trip was brilliant. Anna was a lovely guide with a great sense of humour. One slight improvement would be to try to jiggle the daily schedule so that lunch comes a bit later. We all had good breakfasts, then lunch was often around 12-12:30 and we weren't hungry enough to make the most of the extensive spread put before us.

It's a fascinating trip with a very nice guide but for me personally too much driving and too much packed in, with not enough time in the many stops. For instance, we got to Stalin's birthplace, but the timing meant we couldn't go to the museum to him. We weren't lucky with the weather, and the Kazbegi hotel was a low point, but the cookery classes and meals that followed the hands-on demonstrations were just fabulous. Incidentally the Tbilisi hotel had just one coffee machine for a huge number of people at breakfast, so very long queues and stress for groups that had to leave on time!

Highly recommended. Lots of experiences in addition to eating a lot of food and drinking a lot of wine! Learning about the traditional wine making was very interesting and eating traditional home cooked food was exceptional. The hotels were all good and the coach was very comfortable. Maryam, our tour leader, was a delight.

Miriam was great and very accommodating. We certainly enjoyed having her with us. The tour was very interesting - a lot of churches though to see. We would have like to have spend more time in the Caucasus region - maybe another time.

enjoyable group, excellent food, good bus driver knowledgeable leader who helped me with my problems with stairs