The last leg - down from the mountains to Tbilisi
Even before leaving the UK I knew I'd made a mistake by not booking at least an extra day in Georgia's capital city, Tbilisi. A schoolboy error on my part, as the tour schedule really only gave me an afternoon there. Idiot! In booking this trip I also made another silly error. My impatience got the better of me once I had made the initial booking for the tour itself. The day after that initial booking I asked Intrepid to get me some quotes on flight prices. They organised these for me last year, and I trusted them to get me a good deal. To be honest the prices were decent, but the layover times in Istanbul looked too ambitious. It didn't take long to get better timings, so I went ahead and booked. As with my two trips to the Stan's the flights were with Turkish Airlines via Istanbul, so I just assumed that was the quickest route. A couple of days after making the flight bookings I thought I'd look at Skyscanner just to see if I had got the best option. In short, I ...