THE CATCH WORDS for Batumi is clean, safe and exiting. Every morning at 8 the beach police gather to get the assignments of the day. They patrol the beaches and the centre of the city armed and very polite. There are a lot of them. In Batumi, and other Georgian cities, you will not see overly drunk people or be hustled by prostitutes. A pleasant surprise. The City has also been spared for the rather importunate “Khrushchev apartments”; those horrible monuments over Stalinist functionalism.