A Trip to Georgia

April was a month to experience a new country - Georgia. A lot of incredibly tasty food, nice and hospitable people, wonderfully beautiful landscapes, unique culture. Truly it is a place to recommend for visiting.

In the overall flow of experiences there, there were two especially touching moments/places for me.

The first of these places is Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta (old capital of Georgia, just outside Tbilisi). I just crossed the doorstep and literally no sooner had I taken a step than this church completely disarmed me. I was instantly plunged into an incredible sensation of the Spirit. Immediately the tears flowed.

The second place that particularly touched me in Georgia was the ancient cave city of Uplistsikhe. And especially the landscapes surrounding it. Now I seem to have two favourite landscapes: Finnish-Karelian selkä forests interspersed with lakes, and these stony-grassy places (I would also love to see the sea next to them). Basically, the second ones are somehow similar to selkä: areas covered with vegetation with occasional rock outcrops.

This landscape somehow reflected in me the feelings of a kind carefree life and luminous clarity of the world - sensations that are particularly well experienced as a child.