Seems things are getting nasty down that way now. Anyone due to be going that way or expecting someone on the way back?
Do you have to transit Georgia to get to Azerbijan (Baku) or am I getting confused with Armenia??
Anyone been there and got any pictures or stories to tell?
Looks like the price of oil and gas is about to get another lift!! 
Cheers, Bullitt.
I took a day-cabbed aircraft refuelling rig from Hampton Court to Tbilisi in 1998.
I went Dover-Calais, through Switzerland into Italy, Ancona-Patras, through Greece into Bulgaria then got the scabbiest ferry in the world from Burgas to Poti.
Then overland under heavy Police ■■■■■■ to Tbilisi.
I flew home via Moscow and was arrested at Sheremetyevo Airport because my Russian visa had expired and held overnight before being put on an Aeroflot flight to London.
The trip was expected to take ten days but ended up taking 21 due to various problems along the way.
Here’s my visa, proving the old adage that “the cruddier the country, the fancier the visa”
we’ve got a load left thursday night - i have a strong feeling it will be on it’s way back come monday morning, especially as it is equipment for the planned “georgia express” joint military exercises starting early september
really can’t see them still holding those, letting british and other armed forces in to play grown up paintball with the situation as it is 
Let the Russkies have Georgia…Atlanta is a bit of a dump anyway
I think the deal is that Russia can have Gerorgia if the US can have Iran.
bullitt:
Do you have to transit Georgia to get to Azerbijan (Baku) or am I getting confused with Armenia??
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well you can go either way, although the preffered route has been through georgia, due to having a less difficult terrain
I’ve been to Tbilisi twice this year, have some pictures up here also
yup, bring em back to UK luckily we’re on 302s instead of TIR carnet 
jj72:
yup, bring em back to UK
Bonus. Paid both ways
Plus a small percentage off the planned backload 
jj72:
yup, bring em back to UK
How far did they get JJ? Come to think of it, how long would the whole run take?
Had a look on google maps and its right across Turkey then head north above Armenia…Chechnya is just to the north of the Georgia!!! 
Wheel Nut:
jj72:
yup, bring em back to UKBonus. Paid both ways
Plus a small percentage off the planned backload
yeah but only as far as hungary unfortunately malc - and it means we don’t get the re-import at the end of september which was, ahem, rather lucrative 
Wheel Nut:
jj72:
yup, bring em back to UKBonus. Paid both ways
Plus a small percentage off the planned backload
yeah but only as far as hungary unfortunately malc - and it means we don’t get the re-import at the end of september which was, ahem, rather lucrative
So lucrative it had to be said twice!
Trubrit:
So lucrative it had to be said twice!
alright smarty pants, you still think it’s north of Florida depending on customs bullitt, the trip should take 14 days each way, plus fannying around down there to clear and tip
route used to be to go thru southern Russia until Chechnya kicked off proper around late 1994, then we went Turkey - there’s an LDD from around 1995 with a few of Willie Lambie’s motors
now it’s down to burgas and on a ferry, the way harry went with his refueller - much more “civilised” 
Cheers for that JJ, sounds like an intersting run!
Maybe next time you could get one of your chaps to take some pics of the run, if there is a next time of course!!