We boarded another bus in Hopa where just three of us, myself, Jonathan and the French guy got on. I had hopes that this might be comfortable, but they were just shuttling us to another part of Hopa. I did though get 45 seconds of charging my phone up.

The second bus was a little more rickety, but it wasn’t a long journey to the border. These buses don’t have fixed timetables, they just go when they’re full or after the driver thinks that passengers have waited long enough.

The price list.

This is Sarp, a small town by the Georgian border.

The Black Sea and this is, I think, the first time that I’ve seen it. Although I’ve visited Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria, I’ve never been to the Black Sea coast of those countries.

The large buildings on the right are border control and the Georgian town of Sarpi is visible in the background.