Whilst looking out onto the Black Sea, the pirate ship Eldorado came into sight.
It might just be a tourist ship now taking interested visitors around the coast to have a look at Batumi from the water, but it must have been quite something for those who lived here to see invaders approaching by boat. There have been pirate boats on the Black Sea for hundreds of years from the times of the Goths and, in not a dissimilar way, there is still military action in the waters of the occupied territories of Ukraine.