After some hours of rest my brain changed to cycling mode, waking me up and making me nervous. Nadia needed a bit longer to wake up (she is allowed to stay in holiday mode ? ). Meanwhile, I packed my bags and continued cutting videos. And when Nadia for the last time and especially nicely prepared breakfast, I brought my bike and my stuff down and prepared everything for leaving. I brought my bike to the supermarket SPAR, covered it with the flag-cover and tried to buy Gregorian products in an invading Austrian supermarket (but the chocolate was Russian branded and produced by Mondolez) and told cashier that I will come back in 30min. So, I feel safe to let the bike somewhere for a while.
To make it short, it is not easy to say good bye after three days of re-meeting, only Mariam made it easier (she slept when I left ?), but I take these things as training to cope with finiteness…
And then Tbilisi traffic had me. We were like friends, there was no problem except bad air. I knew the after 17km a strong slope would come, but after this nearly meditative flowing in the city traffic it came particularly hard. It was so steep! Partly I simply couldn’t cycle and even pushing was hardest work. And then the chain jumped out. I had to unpack the bike to fix that in this terrain. On top Garmin gave me 50m extra in a situation when the paved road had ended before he told me that his own instructions would be wrong, only to tell me the same a little bit later about his won corrections. So, I asked someone and, in the end, just looked for the best way to get down again.
It was not too hard to find a way as I knew I would get back to the main road. The main road…. The way would have been 10km longer. But for the 15km over the “hill” I needed 90min, this is 10km/h. On the main road I could have biked with 20km/h (to make the calculation simpler). So, I would have had 25km and this would take 75min. Was the experience of the hill (exhaustion, great views, silence…) worth 15min? And if yes, would it also justify 30min loss? What is the limit?
I am not sure if these questions are essential but when I am cycling it can happen that I try to calculate things like those and answer such questions. (In this case the answer was: yes 
15 min are ok and 30min would have been my limit of acceptance for today. But only because of cool weather)
what I saw on the way:
a village selling mainy laundry detergent
My last Lari coins I changed to raspberries that I bought from a man who also wanted to change my last Lari to Dram. But I was not sure about how much would be ok, so I didn’t. At the border it was interesting to see the difference between the Georgian and Armenian officials, the latter were friendlier. But does it say anything? When I remember the border control in Batumi where the officials wished a pleasant stay and asked some interested questions, I say no.
But it was evident that Armenia has another attitude against strangers as it was hard to find Latin writings or English explanation. But maybe it is too early to say something after cycling 3km and staying a few hours in Armenia ?
I checked in in the first hotel that I found (with 3 rooms, but my room is very nice!) in the first Armenian village and for the first time my bike stays with me ?