Charity shopping
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008If shopping may ever be labelled charity, this is a very pleasant form: [caption id="attachment_129" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Bottles from the Georgian Teliani Valley winery."][/caption]
If shopping may ever be labelled charity, this is a very pleasant form: [caption id="attachment_129" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Bottles from the Georgian Teliani Valley winery."][/caption]
Central Asia–Caucasus Institute paper on Georgian Russian conflict
Friday, September 5th, 2008From the excellent Central Asia--Caucasus Institute. And you know it's not going to have Russian bias. http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/silkroadpapers/0808Georgia-PP.pdf
Invest in…
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Easily accessible, WTO membership, favourable labour codes, educated population, low taxes, corruption free, possibility to own your own winery. These are some of the sales pitches from your favourite commercials -- the "invest in..." commercials. Quite amusing! Invest in Kazan (special Russian economic zone one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQoL5QpiCec Invest in Мурманск (special economic zone two, ...
Georgian–Russian war replayed in Google Earth
Saturday, August 30th, 2008As I've told you before, I love Google Earth. It has now come to my attention that blogger alias Catholicgauze (who teams with Catholicgauzette) has made Google Earth KMZ files describing the military positions and events of August 9, 11, 12 and 14. I haven't double checked the accuracy or ...
BBC documentaries
Monday, August 25th, 2008Today's tip is going to be the BBC World Service MP3 library of documentaries. "After the KGB", "Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation", "The Kremlin and the World", "Return to Kurdistan", "Uncovering Pakistan" and so on. Do any of these sound interesting? Sure they do. Check them out. What I did ...
Photos from my trip to Georgia
Sunday, July 27th, 2008The EU Commission delegation office in Tbilisi. The founder watching over the city of Tbilisi. Narikala in the old part of Tbilisi. What is that? Premises of Dr. No? When trying to get to the northern Kazbegi region, our marshrutka (a minibus) broke down. First a couple of people came to aid us, but ...
Climbing the Caucasus
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Now I'm back in Tbilisi after two days spent in Stepantsminda in the north of Georgia. We walked and climbed Mt. Kazbeg. I reached a glacier which was very impressive at a distance but looked more like a huge mass of ice and dirt, which I guess is what it actually is. ...
First day in Georgia
Monday, July 21st, 2008Yesterday me and my two companions landed in Tblisi in the middle of the night and immediately fell to sleep after arriving at the homestay. Tbilisi has been very exciting indeed, on our first day, which is now turning into evening. We've climbed the city hillsides, visited churches and spoken to alot of ...
A trip to the Kola peninsula
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008In February I and 17 other people took a trip to the Kola peninsula. We went by train and bus and the purpose was skiing the slopes of Kirovsk -- the "St. Petersburg Alps". I didn't take any photos myself, but here are a few snapshots from the excellent skier Anton's ...