Tag: Tony Hanmer

Saturday Night Fever, mostly because of the recent local elections held across Georgia on Saturday October 4. Here in our ...

The advantage of having in-laws at the other end of Georgia from where my wife and I live is the ...

The background: autumn is coming in Upper Svaneti, as the bushes and deciduous trees lose their chlorophyll and their leaves ...

My wife was taking a Ladies’ Day Out with visiting friends of ours to go to the capital town of ...

Last week I began this fable about how Babua and Bebia, two prominent rock features of Mt. Ushba, came to ...

I recently photographed the famous “Babua and Bebia” (Grandfather and Grandmother) pinnacles which stick up like fangs below the south ...

We at Hanmer Guest House know that there is a lot of competition for tourism in Svaneti. Even in this ...

Our second camping experience at our friends’ secret location near Ureki on the Black Sea, a year later, was quite ...

The USSR. Remember that? My wife lived half her life during it. I managed a single visit to the Soviet ...

If I had not discovered the USSR via the writings of Solzhenitsyn, visited the USSR in the summer of 1991 ...