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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
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
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
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
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 […]
A Crossroads of the Caucasus, Georgia Was a Tempting Invasion Target for Centuries
We woke up in Sighnaghi and outside men were playing backgammon while a small dog sat majestically atop a stone step in the town square. Young men sat outside our hotel strumming on a four-stringed small guitar. I asked them if they could play any Rolling Stones, Dylan or Led Zeppelin […]
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”
“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. […]
Double Take Fringe Festival Roars Back October 17-18!
Double Take Fringe Festival in Greenfield This is something I really REALLY wish I was going to. I have a good excuse but nonetheless, were I you, I’d check out this great festival of short plays that will be held Friday and Saturday, October 17-18th in Greenfield. The venues are […]
Mridula Gets Her Own Domain, a Top Indian Travel Blogger
Long ago, a young Indian professor named Mridula Dwivedi started sending her stories into GoNOMAD. We were in our little red office, this was back in 2005, and Steve kept publishing more and more of her stories. She traveled only in India and all of the stories had the travel […]