Hotel Charm Tbilisi

... dolu. Cestou dolu jsme byli hlidacem dveri kabinky (musel u nich stat, protoze sly normalne zevnitr otevrit) pouceni, ze na peti skalnich utesech kolem Alaverdi cni pet krizu jako upominka na mistni boje s Turky. Tri jsme dokazali najit. U dolni stanice jsme si jeste vsimli tradicne smutne, obrovite budovy posty, ktera podle celistvosti oken fungovala rozlohou tak z petiny.<br> Zpet v dolni casti mesta jsme nasli internetovou kavarnu, kde jsme neco pres hodinu oxydovali ...

... town. The Georgians consider this to be the "holiest of the holy" and it dates back to the 6th c. I was in wildflower heaven on the hike up and back, seeing several that were new to me. The views from the top are great.<br><br>Next stop was Kazbegi, a 3 hr. ride north of Tbilis; a lot of it over roads in need of serious repair; but oh, the views! The Caucasus mountains are unlike any that I've seen; an incredibly deep shade of green, cut in many ...

... there were 55 internally-displaced persons. So the Red Cross/Red Crescent was there trying to give them enough supplies to make it through the winter. Because the place is so isolated, people are usually pretty self-sufficient and prepare well for the winter when the roads become largely inaccessible. But when suddenly more people are tossed into the household after the summer preparation is over, then the families have to ...

... s just about to leave for the depot, the driver stops for me. At the Muenchen airport everything goes smooth and soon I can spend my five hours of waiting time in Riga, Estonia. Although small, the airport is a good place to wait - there are TVs with CNN (hmm, this TV really evokes fear, just like Roger Moore said;))) and CartoonNetwork, chairs with leg rests and very comfortable sofas. The non-EU terminal is worse, but one doesn't have to be there till the very end;). 12.9.2008 ...

... that stuck to his chin he was not an appetising sight. The boat docked and we were in Azerbaijan so more customs and all told the 12 hour ferry took us 36 hours from one port to the other. We were wrecked by all the hanging about. 4/. Azerbaijan is a wierd mix of a country . their ecology is about the worst I've known. Open pools of oil and wasteland - just dreadful and there is a cemetery dedicated to children who have problems due to the poisonous ...

... cheese filled pastries (khachapuri), spicy meat dumplings (khinkali), bean stew with herbs and spices (lobio) which is soaked up with bread, and various other bits and pieces. After, walk the main street, past the parliament house. Our guide leaves us then, after making sure everyone knew how to get home. The group splits almost immediately. We walk up the main road past MacDonalds and the Rustaveli metro station. Kept walking ...

... s restaurant. It was brief and tasty, (but junk, you know...), and it was our last stop before going to Irina by metro. A loud "Tekheti tiketeba, shendegi sadguri - Marjanishvili" (The next stop - Marjanishvili) was heard in the train wagon when we went on it towards Marjanishvili Square metro station for the last time. We walked to Irina to take our bags and thank her for her special - and it was indeed something unique - hospitality. 5 nights out of 10, 50% of ...

... chairlift that goes to the top of the mountain. welll.... first run of the day starts off with 5 feet of visibility and an inability to see the the snowline and how steep the run is, due to no signage we managed to find a black diamond, which was an adventure, but by the end of the day i was more or less able to work my way down the easier blacks. the conditions other then the visibility were amazing, we had between 6 inches and over a foot off fresh powder, no lines at all on ...

... elder lady, the guide, and a young woman, our interpreter, both Georgian, were guides in the museum and they both tried to tell slightly different versions of a piece in the museum. When the young interpreter said something contrary to what the older guide held to be true, she would let her know that there was a difference and go off in Georgian while the younger interpreter ...

... money - for a Turkish rug, you dirty lot! Turkey was a country that I found very disquieting and somewhat daunting - it reverberates with hidden tension and deep-seated emotion. The Turks I was exposed to were extremely generous, extremely proud and in some instances you could see that they had the capacity for great emotion whether murderous rage or deep amour. It is unsettling to have a ...