From the Horse Thief Series

ht-composition, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Hans Heiner Buhr 2007-2008 more here

Cilknis Gvtismshoblis tadzari

Cilknis Gvtismshoblis tadzari, originally uploaded by leluchi.

by Lela Meparishvili
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leluchi/

Stephan Orth berichtet aus Schuschi, Berg Karabach

für den Spiegel, hier
http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,533194,00.html

Gemütliches und ausgesprochen zentral gelegenens Bed and Breakfast in Eriwan

vielen Dank an Verena von Zobeltitz für die Informationen:

Villa Delenda

http://www.villadelenda.com/

Villa Delenda gehört zu der Organisation Family Care in Armenia, und alle
Einnahmen kommen einer Kunstschule in Spitak zu, die bereits seit
knapp 20 Jahren besteht und die den Einwohnern dort die Gelegenheit gibt,
sich kreativ zu betätigen und alte armenische Traditionen wie vor allem
die Töpferei wiederzubeleben.

Bed and Breakfast

Zimmer und Preise hier:
http://www.villadelenda.com/rooms.html

What I would like to have in Tbilisi, but there is not yet...

Just some ideas somebody could invest in...

A huge and reasonable DIY-Store, as most Georgian men like to work with their hands in their households (there is none yet)

A stable and fast Internet provider

A Car Part Component Supplier for most common German and Japanese brands with a regional center, not with a 3- weeks-delivery !!, but within 24 hours !

Cheap and good Supermarkets with a good, fast and friendly service, like the German chains LIDL and ALDI (Lidl even has a DSL-Offer for EUR 9.99/month !, I did not check at Aldi, if they have an offer for this)

A supplier of Art materials like Boesner

and GOOGLE MAPS for the big cities (at least)

and last but not least for today: IKEA

I'll update new ideas from time to time, please feel free to comment

Update 1:

There is, as far as I know, no Pizza Home Delivery Service in Tbilisi...

Bakuriani

Bakuriani, beautiful mountain resort near Borjomi is situated at an altitude of 1700 meters above sea-level. You can enjoy it's healthy fresh air in any season.
There are several skiing-routes with different difficulty levels - Kokhta Gora (meaning "beautiful mountain"), Kokhta 2-Tatra, "25", Didveli etc. Skiing season lasts almost from November to March. Here you can enjoy snowmobiles and quadrocycles, skates in the park as well.
You can find comfortable private houses for rent and guesthouses, where prices are quite accessible.
I'm putting several links of Bakuriani hotels as well:

http://www.bakuriani.ge/new/index.php?lang=en
http://www.hotels-tbilisi.com/
http://www.davisvenot.ge/?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=324


Kokhta ski lift

Kokhta

View from Kokhta

Skiers on Didveli

Didveli cable car

Tourists

Didveli 2nd ski lift

Skier on Kokhta route

Me and my sister on Didveli :)

Tourists on Kokhta

Join our Cattle Drive Tusheti, September 2008

Cattle Drive Tusheti by Trix Zürcher, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Cattle Drive Tusheti by Trix Zürcher, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Cattle Drive Tusheti by Trix Zürcher, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Cattle Drive Tusheti by Trix Zürcher, originally uploaded by grijsz.

25th September through 6th October 2008

Cattle Drive Tusheti

with

Kaukasus-Reisen

all info here:

http://kaukasus-reisen.de/english_version/e_tusheti-cattle-drive2008.html

Visit the whole set of photos by Trix Zürcher, Switzerland, here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caucasus/sets/72157603883645535/

Grundstück in Tbilissi mit Baugenehmigung zu verkaufen

Grundstück in Tbilissi mit Baugenehmigung zu verkaufen

(Down town - up the hill)

Stadtbezirk Wake (Vake) im Zentrum der Stadt

320 Quadratmeter Grundstück in sonniger Hanglage mit fertigem Aushub, Baugenehmigung inkl. Kanal- und Wasseranschlussgenehmigung und bereitstehendem Stromanschluss zu verkaufen!

Nur 900 m zum Mrgwali Baghi (UNO-Kreisel) aber in ruhiger und grüner Lage.

Preis auf Verhandlungsbasis
00995-32-265758
Mob. 00995-93-656270
00995-99-786313
karu.maia@web.de

Abenteuer Viehtrieb Georgien Herbst 2008

Für alle Liebhaber einer ursprünglichen Hirtenkultur organisieren wir vom 25.09. bis zum 06.10.2008 eine Abenteuerreise zu den Sommerweiden der tuschetischen Hirten im äussersten Nordosten Georgiens in die Gebirgsregion Tuschetien. Der enge Kontakt zu den georgischen Schäfern und ihren Tieren, zur rauhen Lebensweise der Tuschen wird Schritt für Schritt herzlicher und findet seinen Höhepunkt im gemeinsamen 3-tägigen Viehtrieb über die Gebirgskette des Grossen Kaukasus in die herbstliche Ebene der Weinregion Kachetien.

Reisetermin: 25.September - 6.Oktober 2008
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 6
Unterkünfte: sehr einfach
Verpflegung: Georgisch, ortstypisch deftig, originell
Gastfreundschaft: phänomenal
Abenteuer: ungewöhnlich

Aktivitäten: Offroad, Wandern, Reiten, Angeln, Camping, Fotografieren, Entspannen, Essen, Trinken, Austausch

Flüge: zum Beispiel ab verschiedenen deutschen Grossstädten mit Zwischenstopp in Riga mit http://airbaltic.com

Alle weiteren Informationen hier:

http://www.kaukasus-reisen.de/viehtrieb-tuschetien2008.htm

Kontakt:

info@kaukasus-reisen

Weitere Fotos auf Flickr hier:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caucasus/sets/72157594378971611/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caucasus/sets/72157602640632608/

und hier

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Tusheti&m=tags


Georgien mit der Region Tuschetien

Reiselektüre zu Georgien und zum Kaukasus finden Sie hier:

http://astore.amazon.de/kaukasusshop-21

Georgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch, Neuauflage

Wie mir der Schweizer Amirani-Verlag soeben mitteilte, erscheint in diesen Tagen die unveränderte Zweitauflage des Georgisch-Deutschen Wörterbuchs von Kita Tschenkéli.

"Das zwischen 1965 und 1974 in drei Bänden mit insgesamt 2508 Seiten erschienene Wörterbuch ist nach wie vor ein Standardwerk der Kartwelologie, gleichzeitig dürfte es immer noch das einzige ernstzunehmende georgisch-deutsche Wörterbuch sein." (Verlag)

Das Werk kann über den Buchhandel oder direkt über das Internet (www.amirani-verlag.ch) bezogen werden.

Kontakt:

Marianna Krayer

m.krayer@amirani-verlag


Thomas Häusermann

Th.haeusermann@amirani-verlag


Amirani-Verlag

Höschgasse 64

CH-8008 Zürich

info@amirani-verlag.ch

Lela Mepariashvili's photo blog from Georgia

http://georgianphoto.blogspot.com/

Weine aus Georgien auf dem deutschen Markt

http://www.phiala.de/

Rotweine

Weißweine

CD's of the Legendary Punk-Rock Band Recepti

Recepti, 1987-92 with Lado Burduli in front

FIRST TIME IN GEORGIA

CDs, Posters and T-shirts

From the Legendary Punk-Rock Band

'RECEPTI'
1987~1992

Are Published

CDs:
are made by the top quality American technology,
mastering is done in Canada.

CD's have a special cover (non-plastic) printed specially for Georgian customers.
There are band photos and information on the cover.
The cover is made in two colours;
On one side of the cover ~
there is a CD with 10 songs
and on the other side ~
brochure with information on the band, song texts and 2002 interview of Lado Burduli with a Canadian journalist.

T-shirts:
First time in Georgia ~
black T-shirts are produced with the Georgian rock band photo;
The coloured photo is on the front, size - A 4

Posters:
First time in Georgia ~
Georgian rock band poster is printer,
size of the photo - 130/90

Hurry!!! the products are not for mass production

Visit the Music Center shops:

Rustaveli 19 ~ tel.:999927
Rustaveli 46 ~ tel.:999964
Pekini 41 ~ tel.:379971
Cinema Amirani ~ tel.:931037

For additional info: Lado Burduli
ladoevent@gmail.com

Suchmaschine: Flüge nach Tiflis

Google bietet seit einiger Zeit Tools an um eigene Suchmaschinen zu bestimmten Suchanfragen zu schaffen:



Dies ist der Versuch eine eigene Engine für Flüge nach Tiflis zu bauen, wird von Zeit zu Zeit ergänzt und verbessert.

Meine erste Suchmaschine war die:

The Caucasus Adventure and Arts Search Engine ;-)

This blog needs more Pop

Gulnara Karimova, Uzbek Popstar and daughter of president Islom Karimov, thanks to Blogistan

To all my Readers: A wonderful 2008

Photo: Trix Zürcher, Switzerland

Three Caucasian Still Lifes

still-life-series001opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

still-life-series004opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

still-life-series005opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Blacksmith

blacksmith, originally uploaded by grijsz.

At Kabali Basar, Kakheti, Georgia Caucasus

Art Club Caucasus International

Art Club Caucasus, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Where do we go we don't know

We want to create a loose network of artists, collectors, publishers, gallery owners. All the possible members I want to invite, around 40 so far, are very good professionals but not rarely alienated, with a lack of discussion and a lack of their friends. We would like to have a Manifesto too, but that should commonly discussed on our first Art Club Caucasus Reunion somewhere End of August, Beginning of September 2008 in the Caucasus. We will journey together, party, create art and have fun ! The Caucasus is one of the best places on earth to make the best art.

I am aware, that maybe not every member can join us on our annual meetings, but I will try hard to get a good bunch of artists together !

I wish you a lucky and funny Christmas !

Best regards, Hans Heiner Buhr

More info on

http://artclubcaucasus.blogspot.com

Boy Tusheti Hegho

boy Tusheti Hegho, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Hope to see you in Tusheti in 2008
Need a good service to get there ?

http://www.kaukasus-reisen.de/tuschetien-abenteuer.htm

Roshka with Chaukhi

Roschka, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Near Roshka in Khevsureti, Georgia

Hans's way by Lela Meparishvili

Hans's way, originally uploaded by leluchi.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leluchi/2119880003/

Unknown girl

A portait by Lela Meparishvili, Georgia

New Art Clubs in Tbilisi

Patricia London ante Paris from Munich, (a former student of Daniel Spoerri) had a nice opening tonight with drawings of white pencil on black paper in the Cumbo Club Tbilisi of Vato Tsereteli, where we had also our first ever Jever Beer in Georgia, and quite cheap. I am sure you'll like this place, more info here


See the full size view


Rusiko Oat, one of the former founders of the New Art Gallery opened the New Art Gallery Cafe in a nice wide basement on Orbeliani Street 31 (near the Flower Market at Kolchos Square), on display different cool artists from Tbilisi mostly with drawings and graphic, like Konstantin Sulaberidze, Micha Shengelia and others



Rusiko Oat is from Welsh origin, like other Georgian lines are from Scotland with the names Mari and Oakley. She told me, that her welsh Great-Grandfather fought for Tsarist Russia, later after 1917 on the side of the White Army and was married to a daughter of the Georgian General Aperashvili. Sometimes in 1921 near Ural he succeeded to send his wife and children back to Tbilisi, but was catched and killed by Red Army Forces.

The Rock'n Roll of Heliskiing

What to add ? Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gbLYmNG8U

Coming to the Caucasus by land route not by plane

as my friend Alex had a terrible time waiting for a flight connecting home, he figured out a great way to avoid the plane and go on the ground from England to Tbilisi, Georgia:

"Fed up with spending hours and hours hanging around in Riga International Airport, waiting for a transit Air Zena flight? Disgusted by the extortionate prices for direct flights to Georgia levied by British Airlines, Lufthansa, and Turkish Airlines?* Well, if you are insane enough to try, here is how to get to Tbilisi from London without leaving the ground (and contributing to the plague of international air travel):

Day 1
Proceed to St Pancras International, and catch an early Eurostar train to Brussels (300+ km). From Brussels, catch the 14:20 Thalys to Cologne (200+), arriving at 17:45. Spend a few hours in Cologne, then buy a picnic, and board the sleeper to Vienna (900+), which leaves at 20:00.

Day 2
Having arrived in Vienna, one must take a short train to Budapest (200+), which arrives at 13:00. After spending the afternoon in Budapest, one must board the sleeper to Bucharest (600+), which leaves at 17:45.

read the further steps on Alex' http://transcaucasian.blogspot.com/

You travel, you see, you arrive. Would be cool to do this way on horseback too...

Ein herrliches Weihnachtsgeschenk für Freunde Georgiens

wäre... ?

Eine gute Flasche Sarajishvili Kognac vielleicht ? http://www.saradjishvili.ge/

Eine Tschocha ? Das traditionelle Oberkleid georgischer Männer, unheimlich, schön, praktisch und angenehm zu tragen... ich habe schon eine, siehe oben, es gibt sie in schwarz, weiß und rot. Preis um die 140,00 Lari, am besten in Tbilissi besorgen lassen und mit Anprobe wäre es natürlich perfekt. Obige Kopfbedeckung ist übrigens eine Chabalacha, wie sie in Westgeorgien getragen wird, Preis um die 100,00 Lari.

Ein wunderbares Geschenk ist auch der herrliche Film von Ruth Olshan "Wie Luft zum Atmen" mit atemberaubenden Bildern und der Musikalität, die den Georgiern im Blute liegt. Eine der besten Kameraführungen die ich in diesem Jahr in einem Film gesehen habe. Zu bestellen als DVD für EUR 19.90 im Shob von delicatessen.org hier

https://www.delicatessen.org/shop//index.php?aktion=artikel&id=257&von=0&bis=150&sortby=DESC

Oder ein Originalfoto junger georgischer Fotografen ? (Kontaktieren Sie die Fotografen über ihr jeweiliges Profil, Preise sind Verhandlungssache...) zum Beispiel

Lela Meparishvili

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leluchi

Maka, originally uploaded by leluchi.

oder Paata Vardanashvili ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paata/

David Gareja, originally uploaded by Paata (www.paata.ge).

Weitere Ideen für Weihnachtsgeschenke können Sie gern in den Kommentaren posten...

1 December, World Aids Day

Connected to aids day, management students of Georgian theatre and film university organized a project. It took place in II building of the university, in newly opened basement, which was being prepared and cleaned by students for 2 weeks for this day. This space is specially choosen for students to organize parties, shows and different kinds of arrangements.
Specially for this project students invited rector, pro-rector and other professors of the university. Participants included unviersity boy's choir "Teatralebi" and girl's choir, singer Sister soul, Sukhishvili dancers..Later band, darbouka & Tom-Tom show and dj performance at night.
The project was sponsored by Red-Bull.


Preparing "a la fourchette"

Guests

"Teatralebi"

Playing lottery

Sister Soul with band

Anchiskhati Basilica At Night

Anchiskhati is one of the oldest, triple-nave basilica in Tbilisi, built in VI century. It's old name is unknown. "Anchiskhati" was called in 17th century, when the icon of christ was brought here from Anchi monastery (in the south of georgia, now northeast Turkey). The icon is currently preserved in the Georgian National Museum of Fine Arts. Anchiskhati Basilica was damaged and rebuilt several times.

Anchiskhati Basilica
Anchiskhati Choir


Entrance

View from Sanapiro, Mtkvari (Kura) river right-bank

View from main entrance stairs

Found Still-life Cafe PurPur

glass-opt1400, originally uploaded by grijsz.