Day 149: Rest day in Tbilisi

Tiger wants a redo on today​

Not our finest day in a very fine city. ​

We set off with Tigers broken bike to get a new dérailleur ​arriving at the nearest bike shop at 10am as they opened. Things didn’t look great - the shop was really a bike hire place, and although they were keen to help, they didn’t really have the tools or the parts, and definitely lacked experience.

 We eventually found another bike shop 5km out of the centre and had to walk the bike up there instead, by which time it was already the afternoon. ​

We left the bike with them and went back to our apartment for a short time before we had to grab another taxi back out to pick up the bike. ​

We did pass a few local landmarks in the day

Mixed news when we got there. Everything was fixed, but they derailleur didn’t work with the shifters. ​

However they’d been complete legends and phoned around and found a derailleur that would work - from the Georgian Cycling Federation of all people - and they can get hold of it tomorrow. So, no early start for us tomorrow and we spent our day on five taxi trips and a five kilometre walk... and we still don’t have a working bike for Tiger. 

Still, we ​got to see The Avengers film this evening, which cheered Tiger up. 

Nice bridge