Naziko Javelidze runs a family guest house whose name means Gurian Charm’ from her home in the countryside village of Dvabzu, about 6 km (4 m) from Guria’s capital, Ozurgeti, and 20 km (12 m) from the sea. It’s a relaxed rural area with houses fenced off around gardens, vegetable patches and enclosures for a few domestic animals. Naziko has three pigs and a cow in her care plus a handful of chickens. Outside her gate, a family of speckled pigs run free, enjoying the little ditched canal that flows from a spring past her front garden. The stream is called Stolocro and means ‘river of a hundred fishes’.
