This is a spoken-word transcript of a YouTube travel vlog by Nate and Kara Buchanan documenting a stay at an Airbnb in rural Georgia. The hosts (an older Georgian couple and their family) show them the property (grapevines, mill, livestock), prepare an extensive homemade farm-to-table dinner with traditional dishes and homemade wine/cha-cha, and escort them on local activities (fording a river, shooting shotguns, visiting a hilltop 17th-century fortress). The vlog emphasizes warm Georgian hospitality, cultural exchange (partly via Google Translate), and the couple’s enthusiastic, positive reactions during this leg of their multi-day road trip through Georgia and Armenia.
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Okay.
Shoulder. Okay. Ready? Huh?
We have a three and a half hour drive north. We think we found an incredible Airbnb. We've arranged for the grandma and the grandpa of the house to cook us dinner. So we're all very excited. But there's also a chance that, like.
Our expectations are way too high.
It could be a very normal meal.
We made it.
Hello.
Yes.
Hey, pups.
Hey. Hey.
So many puppies.
So many puppies that don't like me.
Look at this, doctor.
Very nice.
Oh, beautiful. Oh, loving this.
Oh, there's little babes. They're all ready.
Tw.
She looks Lady Green is chicken coop.
So we've just driven 3 and 12 hours through the beautiful Georgian countryside. We've arrived at the Airbnb, and just like we hoped, Grandma and grandpa have taken us under their wings. He's giving us a tour of the house. We've already seen where they grow the grapes for their wine.
The.
The chickens, the turkeys, the ducks. And now I think there's an old mill located on their property.
Oh, my goodness.
This is crazy. I've never seen a meal. Oh, my God. This is awesome.
Really cool.
This water is spinning the wheel, which is grinding the corn. This is crazy. Turkey sandwich. And there's baby ducks.
I love them.
Just getting peaches off the tree. No big deal.
Our Airbnb comes with puppies.
So over their entire yard, they are growing grape vines that are just full of these big, beautiful, purple, plump grapes that we assume they make homemade wine out of.
This looks a bit special, doesn't it?
My goodness.
Did you hear that, folks?
Where are we? This is crazy. Evan.
Look at the bread. Ah, chakapuli.
No, no. Lobio.
Lobio. Huh?
Chakapuli.
Chakapuli.
Okay. They look like little parsley cakes. They're so.
Okay.
Okay, this one is the.
We just saw the wine come out vino from your dad.
Right now. Our host is Ice Timing her son, who speaks English. Explain to us what all the foods are. Okay.
This is like a similar key first. It's like a bot. Completely different name.
Yep. Very sour.
It's like 300 probably years old. And the Georgians, they drink, like, make a toast. You gotta finish entire thing in once. Oh, my father's gonna teach you how to drink from this. That's Sanchin Chila.
Yeah. Great.
He wants to basically create the desire for you guys. We can come back next time, too.
This is a waste of drinks.
He said.
Yes.
So he's very hard, very slowly, so go straight to the brain.
He's still going.
After the real admiral to his goat.
Yeah, I think I'll give it a go.
I'm not going to be sc.
All right, here we go then.
Oh, it's so good.
Oh, you were so close.
You were so close.
I was like, when do I need a breath? That was beautiful. Oh, yeah.
Jeez.
Wow. What have we got ourselves into?
I can't swallow if I have.
Dessert. When we booked this Airbnb, we read a review where somebody said that it was the best meal that they had in Georgia. We were a little bit skeptical, but our expectations have been completely exceeded. Everything on this table is absolutely delicious and made in the kitchen by our sweet, adorable host.
The tomatoes that you see were the ones that we picked earlier. The cucumbers, similar. Same with the parsley. The bread that you see both in the cheese and also here in the bread basket. We milled them basically ourselves all round. Pretty much unbeatable in terms of. What do they call it? Farm to table, backyard to table. Within about 20 meters.
We've agreed this is our favorite experience on our entire road trip, and we've only been here for, like an hour.
And we're never gonna leave. Tell you what, there's a lot of wine in those wooden containers.
You definitely call Sam quick.
Yes.
Let's get together with everyone. Yeah.
It's not enough. Yeah, I'll get better. I'll get better.
Tennessee. Tennessee, Australia.
We're married.
Today is day seven on our road trip through Georgia and Armenia, and sadly, it is our last day. Later. This is evening. We have to return the car back to Tbilisi. But first we should have a very interesting day ahead of us.
We had a fantastic feast last night. It was such a good time. And somehow we started talking about hunting and shotguns. The hog hunt. What animals do you hunt? That is Horri Bear, too. Bears.
Do you want to shoot tomorrow? Yeah.
Yes.
Yes, she does. Tomorrow. And I think the dad of the house is taking us to shoot some shotguns.
This has all been done through Google Translate. And their son who lives in the US we have no clue what's about to happen today.
This is fun.
Yeah. I'm suddenly very energized.
We have to go through the river.
Sis People, it's a good thing we've.
Switched over to the Xterra instead of the Corolla because we are currently fording a river. Oh, my good.
I guess we're meant to follow.
Dad picked me a flower.
So we're not sure if we're understanding this correctly at the moment. Because we're doing it all through Google Translate. But what we think is happening is that our hosts have brought us out to this land that they own that used to be an old airstrip during communist times, and they own this lake. And we're not sure about the cows. Okay.
Yeah. Good.
Yeah, perfect. Going up into the hills.
And we're off to the next spot.
Normally, I try to use the stabilizer and keep all of the footage in our videos nice and smooth, but chose to take it off to give you, like, the full experience that we're having right now.
Good. Okay, I can't hear anything out of this ear, but it's.
Kara's turn.
Will you hold my ears?
Ready? Uh huh.
Oh, man, that got me really excited. You can feel the heat.
Yeah, Go on, mom. We're gonna test his skills.
Here we go.
See if he can hit the apple. 3, 2, 1.
Southern.
Got it.
Wow.
Did you get it? Yeah.
You know.
I'm from Tennessee.
Natan.
Way to represent.
I blew it in half.
She's following Mom.
Cemetery.
All right, let's go.
They brought us up to a 17th century fortress on top of this hill overlooking all of this land.
Wow.
Hope it can hold three people.
Feels pretty solid.
I.
I don't want to leave.
It's incredible.
Wa.
In the clay pots.
Oh, my gosh.
Wow. It's huge. This is where they make wine in the backyard. Various clay pots. Five huge ones. I could. I could stand up in there.
Oh, wow.
Huh?
Wow.
Amazing.
It's beautiful. My second flower of the day from my Georgian dad. Mint.
Mint.
That is delicious. Yes.
Amaretto.
Just trying the house. Cha Cha. This place is amazing.
Where's that? On the way to.
They're too sweet.
Thank you.
Bye.
Bye.
I don't want to say bye.
Bye.
Bye, sir.
Goodbye.
Thank you so much. Diddy. My loba. Oh, they were the best.
Far round.
Wow.
That was fantastic.
The best experience. Those were the best people I've ever met. We had heard about Georgian hospitality before, before we came here. And we had met some nice people up to this point, but they took hospitality to a whole new level.
I'm gonna miss them so much. We haven't even been here 24 hours.
Literally felt like they were our parents. Like we could have Stayed there a week, and they wouldn't have minded.
And I think they were genuinely sad to see us go.
Mom cried. I think dad was mopping all the sweat or tears off his eyes.
And they sent us off with a jug of homemade wine and a bottle of homemade cha cha.
So nice. Do we know where we're going now?
Yeah, towards Chintura.
Are we going to.
Yeah, we're gonna go and ride some cable cars in the old Soviet town of Chintura.
It looks super. Sk.
Vessel will show you.
With blood. With blood.
They'll show us.
They'll show us some blood.
I just like how it made me laugh.
11 years of preparation.
You like it out.
Okay, follow in.
Follow in.
You could have told me to pat my hair down before we had dinner. And I look like I'm sweaty be. That's like chugging a.
A wooden container of wine. I feel like you could easily just make a vlog from dinner. Like picking dinner.
I think we could do this one.
Or a napkin.
His glass. Ah, there. Perfect.
Who needs language?
Okay, you finish this.
Okay.
Nashville.
Let's go.
Nashville.
You did well.
Surprised I did that.
Well.
There it is.
All right.
You just gotta keep going like that.
I can't do it.
And there's dessert.
Fantastic.
You are amazing. So, Majesty, she's like, you have to get very nice. Daf Kanguri. Oh, God. Daf Kanguri story.
It sounded much worse than it actually was. Good, good, good.
