The road well travelled: Greetings from Tbilisi

Greetings from Tbilisi where, after a long haul that saw us checking into our hotel at 4.30am, a modest proposal formed in my addled brain: I think Istanbul should be twinned with Limerick Junction.
Now, there, I’ll wager, is a sentence you never expected to be reading over your breakfast cereal on this or any other morning.