Georgie

I know we've spoken about this before, but I mean, what a city.

Yeah, so amazing.

What I thought was really interesting, I've been thinking about this over the last couple of weeks, and it's something Claire said to me, Claire Solon, on Soul Sisters when we came home from the Rome half marathon.

So she stayed on in Rome.

And when we got home, I don't know if you listened to this episode of Soul Sisters, but she was like, it's a hugely masculine city.

I do remember saying that yeah so she was getting the you know the gladiators vibe then in all the restaurants she was like those boys run that town you know they're all outside having the crack you know um

been so charismatic to their customers at the tables.

And then you have all of the priests and the monks and, you know, all of those guys who are doing their thing in Rome.

And so she was like, it's a hugely masculine city.

And I was like, oh, whoa, I didn't pick up on that when I was there, but I feel that now on reflection.

And then when I think of Tbilisi, I think it's a hugely feminine country.

So number one, because the mother of Georgia, so their monument is this huge statue of this lady on top of a mountain and it literally towers over the whole city of Tbilisi.

And in her hands, she's holding a glass of wine.

A bowl of wine, sorry.

A bowl of wine to welcome visitors and a sword in her other hand to...

Yeah.

And, like, that blew me away.

Then the Bridge of Peace, which I wanted to walk over, like, many times.

That feels hugely feminine to me.

And then, obviously, the surrogate mothers there, the women who run the agencies, you know, the women who are in all the shops baking the bread every single day, the vegetable shops.