{"id":1103,"date":"2019-10-24T04:35:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hauserehninger.ch\/WP\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2019-10-25T05:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:35:59","slug":"erster-ausflug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/2019\/10\/24\/erster-ausflug\/","title":{"rendered":"A first trip into town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We took our first exploration into town on our 2nd day. It was supposed to be dedicated to get to know the  town an help us to regain our orientation. Tbilisi is situated along the river Kura stretching out up the surrounding hills like so many arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we arrived in Tbilisi, we entered from the north which we did not expect and as as our senses were occupied by everything other than our sense of direction we lost this probably at this moment. Thist means: While Ulrich is fighting to get back his unerring sense of direction by trying ceaselessly and still failing every so often, I gave up on trying to get my bearings about our geographical situation. It is a very strange feeling if you are not sure about your orientation on the planet anymore. Now I know that there are many people traveling to Tbilisi are suffering from the same problem. For these few months I will probably have to reverse to orientate myself by using landmarks instead of a general feeling of direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well back to our first trip into town: Due to the good experience in Budapest, we decide to take a ride on one of these Hop-on-Hop-off Buses. We leave our car at the office of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgia-insight.eu\">Georgia Insight<\/a> and start walking. It is very busy in town despite it being Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-1104\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-90-1 metaslider metaslider-nivo metaslider-1104 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"Slideshow\" aria-label=\"Tbilisi_01\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_1104\">\n        <div class='slider-wrapper theme-default'><div class='ribbon'><\/div><div id='metaslider_1104' class='nivoSlider'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/parlamentsgeb\u00e4ude-710x533.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"Houses of Parlament: This is where all those demonstrations we watch on TV take place. At the moment spirits are running high on the controversial demarcation line between Georgia and South Ossetia.\" title=\"parlamentsgeb\u00e4ude\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1119\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nationalmuseum-710x533.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"National Museum: The management of the Georgian National Museum unites several museum branches of the different regions of Georgia to explain their different cultural heritage.\" title=\"nationalmuseum\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1118\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/galeria-533x399.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"Galeria: an ordinary western mall in the middle of the city.\" title=\"galeria\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1115\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/europaplatz-710x533.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"Europe Square: View to Avlabari, one of the oldest quarters of Tbilisi.\" title=\"europaplatz\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1113\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/marjanishvili_strasse-710x533.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue: founded in the first half of the 19th century by German colonists the street has been beautifully refurbished during the last few years to show the original German architecture of the time.\" title=\"marjanishvili_strasse\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1116\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friedensbr\u00fccke-710x533.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"Bridge of peace: spanning 150 m across the river to unite the old an new town the bridge was opened only in 2010.\" title=\"friedensbr\u00fccke\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1114\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/narikalakirche_und_burg-710x533.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"Nariqala fortress and Nicolas church: The fortress exists since the 4th century after Christ and has been expanded in several steps until it was partially destroyed in 1827 by an earthquake. The view over the baths district on the one side and the wilderness of the Botanical garden is special because it illustrates the closeness of completely different aspects of this town nicely. To change the vista you just have to turn around.\" title=\"narikalakirche_und_burg\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1117\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/samebakathedrale-533x399.jpg\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" data-caption=\"Sameba Cathedral: Trinity Church was only built in 1995 after the turmoils of the breakdown of the Soviet Union ceased. It is erected on an old Armenian cemetery which was not treated very respectfully. Finding bones on the building site seems to have been the rule rather than the exception.\" title=\"samebakathedrale\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-1104 slide-1120\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see on the pictures our first trip is rendered interesting by all the information about fascinating and contradictory history. Of course we are only shown the nice areas of Georgia&#8217;s capital city but luckily the intercom on the bus is damaged so that we are accompanied by a sort of private tour guide who is willing to answer at least a few of our questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took our first exploration into town on our 2nd day. It was supposed to be dedicated to get to know the town an help us to regain our orientation. Tbilisi is situated along the river Kura stretching out up the surrounding hills like so many arms. When we arrived in Tbilisi, we entered from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/2019\/10\/24\/erster-ausflug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A first trip into town&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,93,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tbilisi","category-georgien","category-reisen","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hauserehninger.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}