This is such a beautiful place I feel like staying forever, except that summer only lasts 3 months and winter temperatures are -30C and 2 metres of snow. Actually I would like to see that but maybe not for 9 months.
The owner showed me a photo of himself with a bear cub in the snow. I asked where the mother was but he speaks no English.(some one told me later he had probably shot her and would sell the cub).
The guest house is a big, solid old building with wide verandas and sloping wooden floors.
The garden is surrounded by old stone walls and full of very tall old apple trees and fat brown hens, three sheep, a hairy piglet and two fluffy puppies.
Mazeri is a littIe mountain village. I came from Mestia this morning by mini bus, luckily with two students from Czech Republic to share the cost. Taxis are expensive and there is no public transport.
A new road and bridge are being built; the government is trying hard to increase tourism and the taxi drivers told me it was up by 50% this year.
There are a lot of Polish tourists here but I have only met one from England.
Had dinner last night with a guy from Norway; I thought I should try the pork since there are so many pigs running around. I had Ojakhuri, chunks of pork with potatoes. The meat was as dark as beef (unlike the pale grey you get in England) unfortunately swimming in oil; his choice, (I never go to the places full of tourists). Live music though, 3 men harmonising + an accordian.
The owner showed me a photo of himself with a bear cub in the snow. I asked where the mother was but he speaks no English.(some one told me later he had probably shot her and would sell the cub).
The guest house is a big, solid old building with wide verandas and sloping wooden floors.
The garden is surrounded by old stone walls and full of very tall old apple trees and fat brown hens, three sheep, a hairy piglet and two fluffy puppies.
Mazeri is a littIe mountain village. I came from Mestia this morning by mini bus, luckily with two students from Czech Republic to share the cost. Taxis are expensive and there is no public transport.
A new road and bridge are being built; the government is trying hard to increase tourism and the taxi drivers told me it was up by 50% this year.
There are a lot of Polish tourists here but I have only met one from England.
Had dinner last night with a guy from Norway; I thought I should try the pork since there are so many pigs running around. I had Ojakhuri, chunks of pork with potatoes. The meat was as dark as beef (unlike the pale grey you get in England) unfortunately swimming in oil; his choice, (I never go to the places full of tourists). Live music though, 3 men harmonising + an accordian.
