Shopping in Georgia
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Prospero’s Books
This English-language bookshop and café has a terrific if expensive selection including lots of titles on Georgia and the Caucasus region.
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Geoland
Georgia’s best map supplier, Geoland sells Soviet military 1:50,000 sheets (the best available topographic and hiking maps) at 5 GEL per A3 sheet, plus its own excellent 1:250,000 maps covering Georgia in six sheets (30 GEL each), and a 1:650,000 country road map (30 GEL). You can buy these maps at the office or order by email. Geoland also plans to bring out its own updated 1:50,000 trekking maps and a Tbilisi city map, and it’s opening a travellers’ café on site.
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Dry Bridge market
Dry Bridge market is the most interesting market. You’ll find all kinds of knick-knacks and charming miscellanea from art, accordions, samovars and electrical gadgets to china, glass and silver being sold off by impoverished old folk.
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Georgian Souvenirs
Some of the stock here veers towards the kitsch, but the icons, dolls and puppets are eye-catching, and the decorative wine bottles are full! It’s the spot if you’re hankering for a Caucasian sword.
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Gallery Artgasm
In the courtyard next to Prospero’s Books, this gallery offers a range of funky items, from copper sculptures and enamelled jewellery to embroidered bags. All created by Tbilisi designers.
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Carpet Shop
This unnamed shop halfway down the hill on Leselidze boasts ‘carpet nice; price nice’, and has an array of rugs from across the region. Locals shop here, so it must be good.
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Old Food Shop
The nameless old food shop has very ordinary goods for sale, but its rich gold decoration is a unique memento of pre-revolutionary Batumi.
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Meidan 91
Touted as the oldest carpet shop in the Caucasus, Meidan 91 is an Aladdin’s cave of carpets, samovars, pewter and antique regional dress from across Georgia.
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Populi
Plenty of supermarkets offer a large range of foodstuffs. One of the best in the centre is Populi.
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Old Carpets & Kilims
Come here for a variety of rugs from Georgia and around, and Central Asian suzani textiles. Be prepared to haggle.
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Green Sun Souvenirs
This place offers a range of interesting knick-knacks, from figurines to embroidered scarves.
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Dom Vina
A bountiful wine cellar offering up tipples from across Georgia.
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