{"id":1544,"date":"2011-06-16T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2015-11-14T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T10:04:09","slug":"batumi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"Batumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy day.<\/p>\n<p>Sent a parcel home with some souvenirs. Set me back 80 lari (a bit more than 30 Euros). Went to Natia&#8217;s caf\u00e9 for a capuccino and got a bottle of Alazani Valley wine as present!<\/p>\n<p>Later Roland and Thomas from Germany and Ulrich from Switzerland checked into the hostel. Went out for dinner and beer. They&#8217;re all extremely well-traveled and we swapped travel stories and experiences all night.<\/p>\n<p>For example, all of us noticed that Germany and Germans have a very good reputation all over the world. None of us had any bad experiences related to our heritage. It is quite remarkable that, despite WWI and WWII being caused by Germany, relatively few people seem to have hard feelings against Germany. Apparently &#8216;we&#8217; have worked hard over the last 70 years to gain this status.<\/p>\n<p>As an example: From the moment the &#8216;Heroes of Odessa&#8217; crew learned that I&#8217;m German I had a new nickname: &#8216;Deutschland&#8217;, and got double portions of food.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container \" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"0\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicmasonry-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gutter-sizer\"><\/div><div class=\"rl-grid-sizer\"><\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item rl-gallery-item-width-4\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3301.jpg\" title=\"Old Batumi street scene\" data-rl_title=\"Old Batumi street scene\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3301-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Old Batumi street scene\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Old Batumi street scene<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3309.jpg\" title=\"Medea and the Golden Fleece\" data-rl_title=\"Medea and the Golden Fleece\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3309-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Medea and the Golden Fleece\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Medea and the &lt;a href=&#039;http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_fleece&#039;&gt;Golden Fleece&lt;\/a&gt;<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3324.jpg\" title=\"Posh Batumi at night\" data-rl_title=\"Posh Batumi at night\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3324-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Posh Batumi at night\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Posh Batumi at night<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3326.jpg\" title=\"Posh Batumi at night\" data-rl_title=\"Posh Batumi at night\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3326-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Posh Batumi at night\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Posh Batumi at night<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy day. Sent a parcel home with some souvenirs. Set me back 80 lari (a bit more than 30 Euros). Went to Natia&#8217;s caf\u00e9 for a capuccino and got a bottle of Alazani Valley wine as present! Later Roland and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=1544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-the-caucasus-and-back","tag-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}