Tag: Tony Hanmer

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 ...

Well, the hardest climb (though not the highest) in the Caucasus certainly has a personality, as much as mountains can. ...

When we bought this property we live on in Svaneti in 2010, it had two buildings on its 3000-odd square ...

But especially here, or so a potter friend told me on her first visit with her husband, ascending to us ...

It now seems safe to say that, here in Upper Svaneti, tourism is making a strong comeback after we said ...