Northern Georgia.... on the Military Highway

 We were to check out some more churches in the Northern part of the country, very close to the Russian border.... one lane either way with lots of trucks heading to Russia. And we had to go over a very high pass....

Obviously we had to stop en route!

We visited Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, originally from the 4th C but mainly from 1010 onwards..

The next church was up a steep hill in the mountains..... in Kazbegi or Stepantsminda

Surrounded by the Caucasus mountains......

.........and unbelievably a young couple were going to walk up to be married!

On the way to the Armenian border we stopped at Signnaghi... to check out the town......

... the Bodbe monastery

..And as it is in the wine area we had to do a wine tasting!