Georgia 🇬🇪, Avchala Stadium, 7th July 2026

We arrived last night at around 22:00 in Tbilisi. The transfer dropped us off at the Cruise Hotel, situated a walkable 5.6km from Avchala Stadium. 

The hotel room is great though the TV remote does not work, the aircon works, which is much more important.

Great night sleep and a good breakfast of a typical Hotel buffet. Nothing is open before 10:00 am, even in the hotel, the gym and swimming pool opens from 11:00 to 22:00, completely different times to SA. Had to do DailyJ in the room with 2 bottles of water as weights. Children have their 3 months summer holiday so times are understandably later.

We walked to Avchala through mostly highways and much traffic tough we did cross tge Kura river and as we got closer to the stadium the area became more green and beautiful with fountains and play parks.

The Kura river again, island in the middle.

Arrived at Avchala and watched the first game Ireland versus USA.

Ireland 77 and USA 22

England 40 and Argentina 38 what a game. England defended and Argentina attacked. Both teams played until the last second!

South Africa 53 and Wales 33 great game, South Africa through to the semi-finals.

Raining hard so we left the game at half time, we think our Bolt was a Tesla, wow! The head up display and camera system around the car was amazing.

Final score for Georgia 49 and Uruguay 3