Since arriving back from the trip, friends are very interested in the unusual destinations included in this last holiday, and all ask about the highlights. In a Nutshell: ugged mountain scenery peppered with ancient stone towers and remote monasteries are the overwhelming common threads running through our experiences in Georgia and Armenia. Incredibly, …
I skip WikiLeaks and go straight to the CIA World Fact Book to provide you with Background information on Georgia and Armenia. Background on GEORGIA
Dear Pam and Edmundo, In response to your entreaties for maps and photographs of our recent trip to Georgia and Armenia to be in one place, I am now broken of back and hard of seeing but you at least should be content with what follows.
I am walking under umbrella past the Holy Trinity Brompton and hear the organ, and choir singing ‘How Great Thou Art”. The sound is arresting, and I make an about turn out of the cold and wet and venture inside, just in time for the final strains. Content, and in in another zone, I sit …
Over the hill carrying a lamb comes the shepherd with his horse and trusty sheepdog. He drops his crook and sits with the other shepherds digging into a big block of sheep cheese and wrapping it in the flat bread. And not a concern in the world about having us intrude on their breakfast time. …