Tag: Tony Hanmer

No, I can’t stay away long from the massive Soli steelyard in Tbilisi’s industrial Eliava district. I found it a ...

Svaneti is by now experiencing below freezing temperatures nightly. While Etseri’s early dump of snow, as we were leaving on ...

Svaneti, like the rest of Georgia, is in its most colorful season, seeing much of its tourism wind down. Some ...

I remember once, when I was about 30 years old, adding the number of houses or apartments I had lived ...

Now that we are resettling back into Tbilisi life for the next six months (we think), a number of comparisons ...

This is our third time escaping the white season of Svaneti for warmer Tbilisi. Our reasons for doing this have ...

One of the big ongoing jobs in Georgian village life is the maintaining of one’s boundaries. In this case, the ...

This year has already seen me visit Adishi in Svaneti for the first time ever. Now I can add Ieli ...

Khevsureti has plenty to offer, of course, other than the fabled and fabulous aforementioned medieval city-fortress of Shatili. I woke ...

Friends of my wife and I had recently returned from where they live (Germany, his home country) to Georgia (hers), ...