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« Reply #375 on: August 04, 2018, 08:04:33 AM »
the antichrist's car!!!
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« Reply #376 on: August 04, 2018, 08:10:46 AM »
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It is redeeming itself. It is now 166931.

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« Reply #377 on: August 05, 2018, 02:17:06 AM »


My last Airbnb hosts were a family of 5. Husband, wife, 15 year old son and two beautiful (they were) daughters in their 20s. I was their first guest at a newly prepared Airbnb rental. They were amazed I was an American as that is pretty unusual over here to rent to an American. I felt like celebrity as the whole family plus a young family friend who spoke English came into the main area and visited with me for a while. I've never had that happen before. One of the two daughters sang me a song. She performs at the opera house in Batumi and needless to say has an excellent voice.







They even brought me a meal and the host brought me a bottle of his home made 'cha cha'.








The next day I went into the city did my usual stuff shopping and so on. They were on the balcony above my place welcoming me and asking how I was doing. Actually there was quite a lot of contact with them. They always seemed to be hovering about.


On my third day there the family friend Biktor asked me a question, "When are you going to pay for your room?" I told him I already did when I booked the room. I showed him the screen shots of the rental agreement, the receipt for payment and even my online bank statement showing the money left my account and went to Airbnb. Turns out my hosts never set up an account to receive the funds. I told them they should open a bank account dedicated solely for their Airbnb rental. Then work with Airbnb to get my payment that Airbnb already had. It took about 10-12 days before they got all the bugs worked out and they got their money. I bought them a 44 GEL ($18) celebratory bottle of quality Georgian cognac.


BTW I seen a lot less of my hosts after they discovered it was up to them to work things out with Airbnb. I of course helped them by contacting Airbnb customer service and asking them to look into it. My hosts and Airbnb thanked me.   


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« Reply #378 on: August 05, 2018, 03:16:58 AM »



As a retiree who's worked all my life I finds myself bored with nothing to do but web surf and post here. I latched on two ideas I could work on while in Tbilisi. The one I'll tell you about now is cooking. Why cooking? Several reasons. First I miss American food. Food is good here but once in a while I crave the food I ate at home. I would like American style Chinese Sweet and Sour Chicken, Pork Fried Rice, Chicken Almond Ding, Beef with Pea Pods and Egg Roll. There is some Mexican dishes I'd like master as well. Perhaps I could open up a polished stainless steel 'roach coach' full of these delicacies and sell it along the boardwalk? Educational too for all the Georgians and Russian tourists who wonder why most Americans are fat.


I thought too that I could use my Georgian host family as test subjects to my cooking. So I invited myself over and I would bring the meal. They were surprised and delighted or maybe just amused. I don't know which.

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« Reply #379 on: August 05, 2018, 03:27:59 AM »



Having a real hard time downloading photos today



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« Reply #381 on: August 05, 2018, 06:08:54 AM »

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« Reply #383 on: August 05, 2018, 06:19:47 AM »
Turned out pretty good. My Georgian hosts were surprised by the combination of the sweet and sour taste. Except for their opera singer daughter they went back for seconds and thirds. They really enjoyed it.

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« Reply #384 on: August 05, 2018, 06:29:43 AM »
After I left Batumi I got a hotel room for the first night. Yesterday was my first full day at my next Airbnb apartment. I was cooking my breakfast when I looked up and seen this in the window...



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« Reply #385 on: August 05, 2018, 06:44:59 AM »
My second visitor must have smelled the bacon cooking. I gave him some of the bones from the bacon. You didn't know that bacon had bones? I didn't know that either when I bought it. But the FSU is full of surprises.

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« Reply #386 on: August 05, 2018, 11:09:30 PM »
Great photos, Maxx

Your S&S looks wonderful


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« Reply #387 on: August 05, 2018, 11:42:06 PM »
Great photos, Maxx

Your S&S looks wonderful


Thanks Moby. It tasted great. When you and SC come to Tbilisi I'll make sure to cook you some.


Perhaps I can ride with you to Batumi and do some things there? The train back to Tbilisi is first rate.

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« Reply #388 on: August 05, 2018, 11:51:37 PM »



The graffiti artists here are artists.





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« Reply #389 on: August 05, 2018, 11:57:10 PM »

Thanks Moby. It tasted great. When you and SC come to Tbilisi I'll make sure to cook you some.

As good as it might taste - you're never going to get SC to eat meats ...;)

Perhaps I can ride with you to Batumi and do some things there? The train back to Tbilisi is first rate.

Plan still fluid .... one day she wants to do the car journey - the next she'd rather stay in Cyprus ... Women .. ;)

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« Reply #390 on: August 06, 2018, 12:14:03 AM »
As good as it might taste - you're never going to get SC to eat meats ... ;)



Just the veggies with the S&S sauce would taste pretty good. But I can't imagine her eating more than a cup full of it as it is high in calories. A sauce made primarily of Vinegar, Sugar and Ketchup you can figure it is not low-cal. Fried Rice without meat would taste pretty good also. Not low-cal either, but better calories wise than the S&S.
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« Reply #391 on: August 06, 2018, 12:53:30 AM »

Plan still fluid .... one day she wants to do the car journey - the next she'd rather stay in Cyprus ... Women .. ;)


I've been giving this thought... Perhaps you should tell SC that though sunning herself at the beach or by the pool might be her most pleasurable activity, it will not give her as many memories to look back on than a trip through old world Georgia. South of Batumi in Sarpi on the Turkish border is a nice beach with the Black Sea's clearest water. Nice place to continue the tan before the trip along Turkey's northern border. Did you know the Black Sea's water has only half the salt content as the oceans?

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« Reply #392 on: August 06, 2018, 02:50:01 AM »


SC swims in the Black Sea 9 months of the year and enjoys the extra buoyancy the Med gives ;)

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« Reply #393 on: August 06, 2018, 04:21:57 AM »


 ;)  I got your meaning.




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« Reply #394 on: August 06, 2018, 09:42:14 AM »
After I left Batumi I got a hotel room for the first night. Yesterday was my first full day at my next Airbnb apartment. I was cooking my breakfast when I looked up and seen this in the window...

Very cool tuxedo cat, maxx. We have one who adopted us not too long ago when she waltz into our yard and never left. Incredibly affectionate. Tuxedo cats also have that very distinct appearance.

That bacon bit in your story is kind'a strange, I think. Maybe it was just the processing that classified it as such? As I often thought bacon is made mostly from the underbelly of a pig, or as more commonly referred to as 'pork belly'.
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« Reply #395 on: August 06, 2018, 09:49:34 AM »

That bacon bit in your story is kind'a strange, I think. Maybe it was just the processing that classified it as such? As I often thought bacon is made mostly from the underbelly of a pig, or as more commonly referred to as 'pork belly'.

I will not be going to your Butcher's if that's what you thought ! ;)

Middle bacon, from the side of the animal, is intermediate in cost, fat content, and flavor between streaky bacon and back bacon. Back bacon (called Irish bacon/Rashers or Canadian bacon in the United States) comes from the loin in the middle of the back of the pig.

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« Reply #396 on: August 06, 2018, 09:58:26 AM »
The Canadian bacon that we have here in the US looks more like ham than the typical bacon. The bacon we customarily are use to look more like something like this.

http://www.nueskes.com/applewood-smoked-slab-bacon/

Even the one wifey used to buy at the Russian market looks similar. I personally haven't had any in a very long time, although I miss that smell of bacon in the mornings.
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« Reply #397 on: August 06, 2018, 10:10:54 AM »
What you might call Canadian bacon is BACK Bacon to us - and for good reason ... THAT is where it's from :)

Pork Belly is something else

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« Reply #398 on: August 06, 2018, 10:23:33 AM »
Yup. Here's what Canadian *bacon* is, and is in fact pork loin.

http://www.nueskes.com/applewood-smoked-canadian-bacon/

Which for all intent and purposes, would be almost like 'ham' for us.

Pork belly is this: http://jesspryles.com/recipe/braised-pork-belly/

Which would be the same 'cut' for the type of bacon we're accustomed to seeing/eating in the US.
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« Reply #399 on: August 07, 2018, 01:06:06 AM »
It was smoked and looked like the bacon I bought in Batumi. I wanted the butcher or the guy behind the counter to cut it into slices but he just cut it into thick pieces. Having a difficult time communicating I thought, "Oh well. I'll just slice them to my desired thickness with the sharp knife I had at home.


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