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Dr Samuel Gladstone to Retire After Serving with Distinction

Samuel Gladstone MD

I’ve been lucky in life to have had a steady hand looking over my health since 1991. That’s when I began to visit Dr Samuel Gladstone as my personal physician. I can look at my chart every visit, much of it hand written in Sam’s unique style of penmanship. I […]

TRYP by Wyndham: A Giant Room in Crowded Manhattan, Wow!

My huge room at the Tryp by Wyndham hotel on 45th St. New York City. Fab!

I found my hotel last night after a long walk across town, and the friendly people in the lobby gave me a positive feeling. There is lots of wood here at TRYP by Wyndham, and screens in the lobby directing you to all sorts of information about the hotel and […]

Bath Bakhmaro: Scrubbing My Way to Bliss in Tbilisi

Bath Bakhmaro: Scrubbing My Way to Bliss in Tbilisi

I’m still feeling relaxed and clean four hours after emerging from Tbilisi’s famous sulfur baths, called Bath Bakhmaro, located in the historic district and hard to miss by its distinctive brick domes.  We had anticipated our visit since we first came to Tbilisi, and so we arranged to rent two […]

Georgia: Traveling from the 12th to the 21st Century

Georgia: Traveling from the 12th to the 21st Century

We woke up in Mestia,  about 30 km from the Russian border, and at 8 am we hit the winding road for a marathon 11-hour journey all the way back to the capital, Tbilisi.  The previous day we had ventured even further up north and visited a church with frescoes […]

Eating the Republic of Georgia: Some of the Country’s Favorites

Eating the Republic of Georgia: Some of the Country’s Favorites

Georgia is a fantastic food destination, it’s full of fresh locally grown vegetables and the chefs don’t feel the need to use a heavy hand with sauces or dunk everything in frying oil. Here are some of the highlights of Georgian cuisine that we tasted during our journey and some […]

Stalin Museum in Gori: An Awkward Remembrance of the Native Son

Stalin Museum in Gori: An Awkward Remembrance of the Native Son

  Even before we reached the grim industrial city of Gori, my friends on the bus were talking about how much they wanted to see the museum there dedicated to its most infamous son, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. When we got there, Joseph Stalin’s light green private rail car was what […]

Mtskheta’s Church from 603 ad, and Iago and Marina’s Feast

Mtskheta’s Church from 603 ad, and Iago and Marina’s Feast

Our day of travel and exploring across western Georgia began at the home and winery of Iago and Marina Bitarishvili in rural Mtskheta. This consonant-heavy small town is also the home of one of the country’s oldest churches, which was built high on a hill around the year 603.  Seeing […]

Georgia on My Mind

Georgia: some random thoughts as we drove from the center of the country, Tbilisi, to the west: Along the road, we came to a detour, with two policemen directing our bus shunting us off to a dusty rutted road. We were driving through the remains of an old Soviet factory, […]

Georgian Hospitality: “God Tests You By Sending You Guests”

Georgian Hospitality: “God Tests You By Sending You Guests”

  “God tests how much you love him by sending you guests,” said John H. Wurdeman V.  We were seated at a long table, shoe-horned into a narrow establishment in downtown Tbilisi called Azarphesha Restaurant, and before us was the first course of a long, long dinner of mezze plates. […]

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