Gagra Journal: Bad Pipes, Worse Service: A Soviet Riviera Jewel Is Reborn and Booking Up

After a long slump that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, a once exclusive sanitarium along Georgia’s Black Sea coast is enjoying something of a renaissance.

from NYT > Travel http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/world/europe/georgia-abkhazia-sanitarium-amra-international.html?partner=rss&emc=rss