Me with Henning Tappe at Elfriede Kurella's grave in Khevsureti 1997

From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists

Happy Eastern for Georgia 2009

ninigori-ostern-2009-1 066, originally uploaded by grijsz.

My favorite Traffic Jam, Maidani Old Town Tbilisi

Are you on Twitter my dear reader ?

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Silver mother

silver-mother, originally uploaded by grijsz.

here you have her in full majestic view, its the "Mother of Georgia" watching over Tbilisi by the Georgian Sculptor Amashukeli made in 1958 and presented as a gift to Tbilisi for it's 1500 th aniversary. She holds a sword for the enemy and a bowl of wine for the friend.

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Art Club Caucasus on Twitter

acc-twitter, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/artclubcaucasus

Blog: http://artclubcaucasus.blogspot.com/

Turning a Steppe Rider into a Newromancer

neuromancer-black-opt, originally uploaded by grijsz.

from the Silver Tron Series, more here

The famous "Mimino" a classic of Soviet Film

Road Tusheti dogs

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Contemporary theatre/dance projects, video artists from Georgia needed

The 4th Edition of the international theatre festival Artetherapy in Slovakia is looking for contemporary theatre/dance projects, video artists in Georgia.

The main theme of the festival is PROTECTED TERRITORY . The aim of this year of the festival, which will take place around Banská Bystrica city in October 2009 is bring to the Slovak culture concept committed and socially actual discussion towards the theatre art from countries which inhabitants suffers or suffered a certain kind of political - war- civil threat, to talk about the need of perception of this kind of themes. 

The festival will show 15 performances in his main program from countries of Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Turkey, Georgia, Israel, Palestine, Poland, Czech, Hungary and Slovakia and create around them the additional program of discussions, workshops, presentation of the relevant topics and messages which each country brings from its local context and which will support the main topic of the festival - finding the symbols of humanity in the middle of different kind of problems which each country suffers from.

http://www.divadlozpasaze.sk/www/festival/2009/main.php

If you are involved in Georgian theatre/dance/ or video projects please contact for participation:

Slavka Daubnerova/Slovakia at pat@pat.sk

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New Blog: Anna Chichinadze : A Georgian Journalist

I wish Anna much success and fun with blogging !

http://annachichinadze.blogspot.com/

Interview with Ian Carver at Georgia Today

There is a nice interview with the traveler/adventurer Ian Carver: from Tbilisi to Kabul on Georgia Today

"GT: Ian, you do travel a lot. If you wanted to settle down somewhere, where would that be?

IC: I think it would be in Tbilisi. Now I consider Georgia to be more or less my home. I don’t really see myself living in the US any time soon. It is more interesting here and I think Georgians will choose a brighter future." read the full article here

He has some honest and straight views both on Georgia and Afghanistan and some brilliant fotos  to show on his site, like the mentioned Afghan Game horse with the huge neck

which seem to be close by type to the Karabair horses I saw in Uzbekistan, and these had been huge as well.

PS

"Our Chechen Horse" a photo by Ian Carver !!

April in Georgia (Mtiuleti)

From Drop Box

From Drop Box

From Drop Box

What Tourists can do in the Wine House Gurjaani in Kakheti

Image: Source

The Wine House Gurjaani published a website and offer various great services for guests from Georgia and abroad:

You can witness the old way of bread baking in this family

You can see how we make Churchkhela

You can visit an old traditional wine cellar and take wine from "Kvevri" amphoras and taste wine

You can see how Georgian Vodka is brewed out of "Chacha"

You can bottle wine with your own hands and buy it

In the room of fire-place you can see the exhibition of old things, as well as tasting different Kakhetian wines. Lunch or dinner with folk group. 4 comfortable rooms are available for overnight.

Wine House Gurjaani

28 Rustaveli Street,
1500, Gurjaani, Georgia,

www.winehousegurjaani.ge
info@winehousegurjaani.ge

Mobile: +995 99 51 22 44
Mobile: +995 99 21 85 75

Video "New collection" by Maka Batiashvili

via http://georgianfemaleartists.blogspot.com/

silvertron2-b

silvertron2-b, originally uploaded by grijsz.

from recent works on the Silver Cyber Tron Theme

Whenthebombstruck

WhenthebombstruckTbilisi.jpg, originally uploaded by Ziggy Star****.

baku panels

baku panels, originally uploaded by petka43.

Spring in Tbilisi, April in Georgia is one of the best time to be here

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

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From April in Tbilisi

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From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

From April in Tbilisi

from "My Brief Foray into Tbilisi, Georgia"

"Backpacking is exhausting. Every minute of your waking hours is spent on high alert. In Homeland Security speak, that would be like, orange or red. Your brains are on constant over-drive, processing the new and constantly changing landscape and people. Because of your unfamiliarity with the environment, nothing is automated. Instead, every person and situation needs to be assessed and scrutinized." read further on the first part of a series by Dana on going to Georgia at http://www.investoralist.com/backpacking-through-turkey-georgia/

Road department

road-dep1, originally uploaded by grijsz.

One of the most famous buildings, not only in Tbilisi, no, in the world !

Architects: George Chakhava and Zurab Jalaghania

http://www.chakhava.ge/realized_1.htm#null

More info also on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi_Roads_Ministry_Building

The best T-Shirts this Spring: Read the Flag !

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Belgrade, Minsk, Bucuresti, Kiev, Moscow, Poland, Romania, Sofia, Tallin, Turkiye, Vilniaus, Warszawa, Zagreb, Ukraina, Wien

Buy at our Art Club member Christan d'Or here: http://readtheflag.spreadshirt.net

Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia soon !

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Wiedereröffnung Rainers Pizzeria und Hotel Kartli

Am 8. April ist es soweit ! Nach einem Monat Renovierung eröffnen wir in der Barnovstraße 32 wieder das

Hotel Kartli

und

Rainers Pizzeria
Europäisches Restaurant.

Beide Betriebe sind ab sofort wieder unter unserer Leitung.
Die 12 Hotelzimmer sind renoviert und bieten jetzt: Dusche/WC/Sat-TV/W-Lan/Minibar/reichhaltiges Frühstücksbuffet zum Preis von 100 GEL (DZ).

Sie können die Zimmer ab sofort in Georgien und in Deutschland buchen.
Nähere Informationen finden Sie auf unserer Webseite: www.hotel-kartli.com.

In Rainers Pizzeria - Europäisches Restaurant bieten wir Ihnen Spezialitäten aus vielen Ländern Europas zu fairen Preisen. Die aktuelle Speisekarte samt Sonder-Aktionen finden Sie ab nächster Woche ebenfalls auf der Webseite www.hotel-kartli.com.

In wenigen Wochen werden wir auch den Biergarten renovieren und rechtzeitig zur Frühjahrssaison wieder eröffnen.

Vor 15 Jahren haben in Tbilissi wir mit "Rainers Cafe" das erste europäische Restaurant eröffnet, vor mehr als zehn Jahren die erste Pizzeria samt Biergarten. Wir sind ein klein wenig stolz darauf, Pizzeria und Biergarten mit unseren georgischen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern damals zu einem der beliebtesten Restaurants in Tbilissi ausgebaut zu haben.

Jetzt freuen wir uns mit unserem gut eingespielten Team darauf, wieder die Führung dieser beiden Betriebe übernehmen zu können. Damit wollen wir die Tradition georgischer Gastfreundschaft und das Engagement unseres Teams wieder mit deutschem Qualitäts-Management verbinden.


Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch.

Gabi und Rainer Kaufmann


PS.: Am 8. April wollen wir ab 19.00 Uhr die Wiedereröffnung mit Freunden und Gästen feiern. Vielleicht sehen wir uns. Wir halten das ganz unkompliziert und unkonventionell: Wer kommt, ist eingeladen. Oder auch: Wer sich hiermit eingeladen fühlt, soll kommen. Wir freuen uns.

The "Devil Sheep" Ha, Ha ;-))

You need an Apartment in Tbilisi to stay ?

dry-bridge-with-arnold 020, originally uploaded by grijsz.

You plan your Studies, Work, Internship or a longer Holiday in Tbilisi ?

If you want to stay longer than a couple of days and shorter than forever you can try our service finding you the right place in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia in the Caucasus, or any other location in the region.

Give us more information about your request here:

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The unbelievable visit of the American Massage Therapist Dr.Dot in Georgia

I really saw the country I live in for many years with different eyes... ok, it was February in Tbilisi/Batumi and probably the least impressing time for beeing in Georgia, but still !

Thanks Dr.Dot for your great feature, what you can read here: http://drdot.blog-city.com/greetings_from_georgia_former_soviet_union.htm

and see on Video on Youtube in three parts here:

Part 0 (Prequel)

Part 1

Part 2

Really entertaining !

lion in winter - monida montana

lion in winter - monida montana, originally uploaded by troutisme.

from our partner region blog by Troutisme from Montana