Tbilisi–Zugdidi train

The train left Tbilisi at 08:20 sharp, its whistle cutting through the already warming air. Georgian Railways, once a realm of Soviet rolling stock—those cavernous, rattling Russian carriages with bunks like iron coffins and curtains heavy with dust—has embraced a new era. The old night trains to Batumi, Yerevan, and even Zugdidi have [...]