MOBY GOES TO TURKEY. A tam and pups adventure.

[Mikey RV]

Love that bridge, don’t think much of your new toad though.

 

[PaddyM]

4C Tam ?

 

[mark49]

That black n brown hairy one. An absolute beaut.

 

[ontheroadagain]

Tam. I know you like your Mercs - this could be your next project.

www.autotrader.co.uk/motorhome-details/202403257930528?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_motorhomes&page=1&postcode=BT63%205BX&fromsra

 

[nicholsong]

Tam. I know you like your Mercs - this could be your next project.

www.autotrader.co.uk/motorhome-details/202403257930528?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_motorhomes&page=1&postcode=BT63%205BX&fromsra

That would have a MOT station scratching their heads as to what they had to check.

No VED though.

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[Northernraider]

Tam. I know you like your Mercs - this could be your next project.

www.autotrader.co.uk/motorhome-details/202403257930528?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_motorhomes&page=1&postcode=BT63%205BX&fromsra

Love that

 

[Northernraider]

That would have a MOT station scratching their heads as to what they had to check.

No VED though.

No mot either so doesn't need to go to an mot station . Mot excempt tax exempt and historic classic insurance

 

[mikebeaches]

Tam. I know you like your Mercs - this could be your next project.

www.autotrader.co.uk/motorhome-details/202403257930528?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_motorhomes&page=1&postcode=BT63%205BX&fromsra

Number plate would be worth a few bob if it's included.

 

[Northernraider]

Absolutely shitty weather today , rain started around 7.30am and its not stopped since .. so what to do on a rainy day but go wine tasting ...Georgia is a wine country and there are winery everywhere. But the wine is usually expensive ..here was no different. 12 euros a bottle roughly .

But they also did food so we had lunch and a bottle with that .

 

[Just smiffy]

First glance and it looks like pizza but it’s different yes…?

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[Northernraider]

First glance and it looks like pizza but it’s different yes…?

Yes It's a type of katchipuri, it's like an eggy bread with cheese

 

[bigtwin]

Absolutely shitty weather today , rain started around 7.30am and its not stopped since .. so what to do on a rainy day but go wine tasting ...Georgia is a wine country and there are winery everywhere. But the wine is usually expensive ..here was no different. 12 euros a bottle roughly .

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What a great way to pass the time away on a dreich day!

Ian

 

[Norfolk Nige]

That looks like my favourite pastime. Food and wine tasting when it’s wet outside.

 

[Minxy]

By heck Tam you need a shave ... and a kilt to cover your privates!

 

[Mikey RV]

Eating out and drinking wine, what’s got into you man.

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[Onemanandhisdog]

Eating out and drinking wine, what’s got into you man.

Be on a campsite tomorrow

 

[Langtoftlad]

Eating out and drinking wine, what’s got into you man.

He's enjoying having some human company around for a bit

 

[Minxy]

He's enjoying having some human company around for a bit

Probably why he has a massive teddy bear in his MH...it must give good cuddles.

 

[Northernraider]

Probably why he has a massive teddy bear in his MH...it must give good cuddles.

No that's why I have 4 dogs ... they cuddle the Teddy

 

[Minxy]

No that's why I have 4 dogs ... they cuddle the Teddy

Knowing what our Minky used to get up to with her elephant puppet ... are you sure they are just cuddling it!

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[Northernraider]

When georgia was part of the soviet Union (USSR) the state guaranteed its workers the right to rest, as a result more than 180 health spa's were built,where the working class could re-energise on a two week state funded vacation. Tskaltubo was one of those Spa resorts on the so called Russian riviera. Construction on its 22 sanatorium began in the 1920's and by 1980 4 trains per day brought 1500 visitors daily 100,000 annually from Moscow to bathe in the radon carbonate springs that in essence could cure anything from eczema to infertility. Stalin himself chose tskaltubo as his holiday destination and favoured bathhouse number 5. After the breakup of the ussr the sanatoriums were forcefully abandoned and as such fell in to disrepair , since 1993 many were used to house 9000 refugees from Abkhazia, this was meant as a temporary measure but to this day there are still some refugees living among the derelict buildings. Some have now been bought by developers and may well open again as hotels . I visited only 3 on my look around....I chose ones with no habitants .

 

[bigtwin]

Amazing Tam!

Ian

 

[Littlewheels]

So sad that such amazing architecture is allowed into rack and ruin,the skill set by the people that created is pretty much gone now.

 

[Just smiffy]

It really saddens me when i see beautiful buildings like this being ruined….

 

[Grianan]

I had very little idea about Georgian history and Stalin till I read The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili. It’s a book which stays with you. Are there gradations of evil? If so, Stalin was at the extreme end.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1950354148/?tag=mhf04-21

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[Langtoftlad]

Monumental
There were a few benefits to the communist state...
Can't imagine Sunak/Starmer doing similar for their citizens.

 

[Just smiffy]

Monumental
There were a few benefits to the communist state...
Can't imagine Sunak/Starmer doing similar for their citizens.

We’ve got butlins….

 

[Waveski]

I don’t think the sanatoriums were accessible to all Russians but for those more equal than others, often particular state institutions. The one I happened to stay at was for the use of the Moscow branch of the KGB! One of life’s experiences I don’t wish to repeat!

 

[Hirsch]

Monumental
There were a few benefits to the communist state...
Can't imagine Sunak/Starmer doing similar for their citizens.

I couldn't think of one benefit to be honest.

 

[Boldly]

I couldn't think of one benefit to be honest.

Without the communist state there would have been no oligarchs and Chelsea would not have won anything

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