Southern Europe is overcrowded, and numerous sunny spots on the coast are moving to limit tourism, with Italy going as far as enforcing a traffic ban on certain days on the scenic Amalfi Coast, and France launching ticketing systems for certain natural parks. Understandably, a growing number of Americans flying across the pond this summer …

Georgia is not the first place that comes to mind when we couple words like Europe and summer. Other than the fact that a majority of Americans would associate ‘Georgia’ with the U.S. state, the very few who will acknowledge the existence of a namesake country in the Caucasus will probably not know an awful …