Tag: Tony Hanmer

Killing some time between flights from Edmonton to Tbilisi. Outward it was via Vienna and Montreal; home, via Calgary and ...

Can you name, without googling, the national bird of Georgia? Hint: it’s a game bird. Another hint: it’s one of ...

Back in Canada for about three weeks. My wife, having been denied a UK visa to go there with me ...

I’m writing this from near Edmonton, Canada, where I’m visiting to celebrate my stepmother’s 90th birthday with family and many ...

It’s time for me to write about water again. In this provincial land of the free, with hardly a building ...

I read a Facebook post yesterday from a trekking guide based on Tusheti. He says that one of the important ...

There actually are two roads up into Svaneti. Via Zugdidi, the road is always open (barring rockfalls or avalanches, usually ...

Look, if you lived just out of sight of Ushba, you’d want to see him more often, too. Especially if ...

This year, my wife’s return to our mountain home in Svaneti was at least several weeks later than usual. I ...

There is a small roadside waterfall on your way up from Jvari towards Mestia, Upper Svaneti, which I always notice ...