Istanbul-Tblissi (Georgia) this summer

so this time it's Turkey and Caucasus...

as i did Berlin-Kyjiv (Ukraine) last year i'm planning my summer-exp for this years. Would anyone like to accompany me on this journey (or parttime).

so far the plan is to get of in Istanbul, avoid the tourist south, not to do an "alp d'huez" every day but see some of the inner parts of turkey, then further east through Capadokia twords newly liberalized Georgia. Instead of taking the awfully busy road to Batumi along rainiy Black Sea and due to the remainingly unclear political situation in the southern province of Ajaria there's the option of crossing the border at Posof which means more climbing.
Do have lots of travelling exp and had former trips to former SU (not so with Turkey, but I'll get my first course in turkish till then) no breakneck-sort of a person know'in what i'm talkin about (doin' well in russian).

your thoughts...