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Georgia

dangerous but safe

Gamarjoba from The Black Sea,     When a country decides to bank on tourism, there’s a certain list of prerequisites they need to have down pat. They need to prepare.  tourism in Georgia    Here we are in Georgia, yet another of the swathe of nations which declared themselves independent in the immediate aftermath of …Read More

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Georgia

stone and mortar

  Gamarjoba from The Caucasus Mountains,      The Caucasus Mountains is where the bucolic rhythm of life is slow, where the hay is cut by groups of men bearing scythes, where the cows bring themselves down from the mountains with the first fall of snow and where the horses run with that staccato gait …Read More

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Georgia

betrayal and patricide

  Gamarjoba from The Caucasus Mountains,       This is what Russian writer, Vissarion Belinsky wrote about the Caucasus Mountains about 150 years ago.  “You will never look for anything quiet, funny or fun in a story; it usually begins with loud phrases and ends with massacre, betrayal and patricide.”           …Read More