2.81 Lari

Day one hundred and twenty-one, Georgia. Georgia wants its own car insurance on top of the one I already have. The office near the border is open around the clock and the business takes four minutes: passport, registration, money across the counter, papers back.

Conveniently it sits at a petrol station where I can also buy a SIM card. Silknet has the best coverage, if you ever come this way.

While I sort out the papers, the phone and the shopping, I keep thinking about what is coming. The world is turning over. Here the clock runs more slowly and I feel safe.

I decide to keep an eye on the exchange rate. Today a euro is worth 2.81 lari. Given what is coming out of Europe, the euro will keep going down.

Which is bad for you and bad for me. I have heard what food costs at home now. Turkey and Georgia have their own inflation to fight.

I am writing the number down so that I can look at it again in a year and see what I knew and what I only thought I knew.