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The unlikely Med alternative for a cheap seaside summer holiday
Lined by art installations, wine bars and cafes, Batumi’s boulevard stretches for seven kilometres along the black sands and pebble beaches of the Black Sea. The snow-capped peaks of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains tower over Soviet-style apartment blocks, …