Narakhali Fortress
Saturday was another sunny, unseasonably warm day in Tbilisi, so we set off after breakfast to scale the western heights...
Synching into Georgia
I returned home from a yoga class Tuesday morning around 11:45 to find Jim pacing the terrace outside our front...
Exhibition Tbilisi
The images are intriguing; I’ve seen the posters plastered on buildings and boarded-over windows and the dirty glass of bus...
The house not taken
My first disappointment in Georgia came this week when arrangements to rent the artists’ house fell through. It seems the...
Continuing our story
In case you’ve been wondering about the empty fountain at the base of the monument in Freedom Square, on the...
The Georgian way
In the center of Freedom Square (Tavisuplebis Moedani, in transliterated Georgian) stands a granite pillar, 115 feet high, at its...
First Day in Tbilisi
At 4:00 in the afternoon, it’s snack time on the streets of Tblisi. Men, women, and children are walking and...
A new Chapter
The fat man in the seat behind me was in distress. Throughout the flight from London he and three loud,...