Georgia

Tbilisi – Capital of Georgia

We have been fortunate enough to visit Georgia and its capital Tbilisi on two occasions this year. The first experience in Georgia was so good (but relatively short, just 10 days in April) so when we needed to exit the Schengen Zone we decided to return to Georgia and explore some more. In October we were back for around 3 weeks. I’ll write about both trips now so all the Georgia posts are together. Let’s start with a bit of background about the place… […]

Learning languages…online?

Languages are wonderful – right up there on the list of my favourite things 🙂 I’m drafting this email (Oct, 2016) in Georgia – the country in the Caucuses not the US State, where I am putting my Russian skills to good use on a daily basis. Although tensions are tight between Georgia and Russia (understandably given recent history), many people speak Russian here, especially our age and older. One of the perks of traveling in the former Soviet block is that Russian is […]

To plan or not to plan?

Camel riding with Teresa and Reiner on our desert tour, Iran.

When we left New Zealand the only part of our trip that was planned was our first weeks workawaying in the south of Iran. We didn’t (and still don’t) know exactly when we will come home. We knew that at the end of June we’d be in Sardinia, in July we wanted to be in France to watch some of the tour de France and we’d be away roughly a year, but otherwise everything was open. It has been great to have flexibility to […]