Bread and Ashes by Tony Anderson
The subtitle of this book is A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia and that is precisely the red thread throughout the book – the mountains more so than the walk, but I will get to that shortly. This walk was undertaken in the late 1990s, the book first published in 2003. Consequently, the narrative [...]
Old comfy clothes and new roots
A lot has happened since I wrote my last post slightly over a year ago. I cried many more tears over Dibar’s death and had other personal issues to deal with as well. Meanwhile, I continued to teach Dutch and had more students than I ever had before. There were weeks when I was exhausted [...]
On eggs, chess, cyber granny and more
It’s already been a week, that I made my latest contribution to Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s (aka Wereldomroep) program Wereldnet. Time passed so quickly and I only now realized I hadn’t posted the link to the podcast yet. So here it is. This time I talked about the Genocide Memorial Day on April 24, about cyber [...]
Pictures from Tbilisi
As promised, here are some more pictures from Tbilisi. On the highway between Tbilisi and Gori, we passed several newly built settlements for the IDPs of last summer’s war between Georgia and Russia. I took the picture from the moving bus, so it is not very clear. On the right you can see the white [...]
Georgia: Gori and surroundings
A couple of weeks ago I spent a week in Tbilisi for a seminar plus some days off. These are some pictures of a day trip we made to Uplistsikhe, an archaeological site near the town of Gori. Gori is best-known as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, but it was also the town that got [...]
