Summary Strange beginning of the travel :near Khulgumo a wagon has been used as a bridge over a river: the idea was to open in this wagon a restaurant but the project failed and the wagon remained abandoned.Then Philippe travels to Svanetia, an mountain area near the Caucasus: in a village he meets three gold seekers who invited to go to the Golden River and to find gold in this river.Then travel to Batoumi, the town at the Black Sea: from there Philippe takes the modern train "Batoumi-Tbilisi": 330 kilometers (in about 5 hours).n board Philippe speaks with a young who sells beverages and snacks about lecture: the railway company has books in this train and everybody can take a book ,read it and give back at the end of the travel.In Tbilisi Philippe meet young man in a barber shop and this young man invites Philippe to a serenade,the young man will ask his girlfriend to marry him, so in the middle of the street the young man and his friends are singing and the young woman accepts to marry the young man.There are also fireworks.In the night Philippe takes a night train to Vardzia, a town with a great history- the cave monastery built by the king George III and later by his daughter Tamar, the frescoes of the the king, of his daughter Tamar and of the Virgin Mary ad Jesus.Near in Bordjomi Philippe sees the residences of the Russian imperial family and takes a little excursion train (called Kukushka).In the north of the country near Tsagueri Philippe meets a family who is harvesting grapes, the grandfather is narrowing poems, after the harvest Philippe is invited to press the grapes with his bare feet, they have a great supper.

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