Tulips, Tbilisi

flowers-tulips 008_opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Tulips are still pretty cheap in contrast to Square Meters in Tbilisi, but it was not always like that: The Big Tulip Mania left many speculators bankrupt:

eng: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
dt: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpenmanie
nl: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpenmanie