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A Caucausus Mountain Bike adventure in Khevsureti
November 10, 2009
Tom, David and I went for a bike ride into the Caucasus mountains of Georgia. I’d been planning it for a while and I wanted to get some proper riding in before the snows descended. Tom arrived on the Sunday but leaving was delayed until Tuesday. To pass the time we decided to build up my new Kona Caldera frame, ate Khinkali (Georgian dumplings) and deejayed in Tbilisi at a cafe at the TV tower.
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Bicycle Critical Mass Tbilisi To Protest Dangerously High Levels of CO2
October 26, 2009
On 24th October cyclists, walkers and skaters gathered outside the Philharmonia theatre in Tbilisi to parade down Rustaveli as part of Climate Week combined with the ‘Tbilisoba’ or Tbilisi’s day- a yearly traditional celebration. Meeting new people on the ride. People with banners and placards. Walking with the Georgian flags and Merabi local biker in the foreground. Georgia, Tbilisi - November 2009 - Critical Mass Bicycle Ride (10) Georgia, Tbilisi - November 2009 - Critical Mass Bicycle Ride (3)
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Weddings, unlike lightning, strike in the same place twice...
October 6, 2009
I returned via Public transport back from France to Tbilisi. I met Tom in Venice and we spent a long and strange evening drinking wine with two German girls and an American / Iranian guy. One of the girls had a Georgian name from her ancestry. Then we slept on a bench. It was one of those trips where it seemed we had to wait for a day for anything to turn up.
Tags: Money
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Tom's Wedding in Yerevan
October 6, 2009
Tom’s wedding happened on the 19th September. I went off to Yerevan on the 15th in the hair-raising Marshrutka (minibus). Continuing the theme of having to wait for public transport I sat 6 hours for the Marshrutka to leave when too few people turned up. I moved between 3 different Marshrutkas, and saw the world through the eyes of a Marshrutka driver, hanging about in the dust outside the train station.
Tags: Armenia
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DJing at Raves in Georgia and other Updates from Tbilisi
October 6, 2009
I got the bus back to Tbilisi. I arrived back and realised that I’d had such a good time and also realised a few things through my experience and change of scenery. Namely that I needed to get out of Tbilisi on a wild mountain bike adventure in the mountains (as you do), and also that I would return back to England again at Christmas to spend it with my family even though it would mean another arduous 6 days of public transport, intensive meditation and further draining of funds.