Alex Bainbridge is an interesting man. The last time he lived in the Caucasus. Now he is in London for a few months (He left Georgia in September, told Hans Heiner Buhr). I was to late to meet him in Tbilisi. I know him only from his great blog, where he had a lot of material to publish:
www.transcaucasian.blogspot.com
Some days ago he sent me a email with two recent posts:
1. an itinerary for getting to georgia from europe by rail
Brussel-Koln-Wien-Budapest-Bucuresti-Sofia-Istanbul-Trabzon(bus)-Batumi(bus)-Tbilisi(train) takes a week!
http://transcaucasian.blogspot.com/2007/12/from-europe-to-georgia-without-flying.html
2. and two very old (c.1909) recordings of Georgian songs
http://transcaucasian.blogspot.com/2007/12/two-songs-by-sandro-kavsadze.html
- "O Mountain, let me pass freely!", "mtao gadmishvi" in Georgian.
- "urmuli" - A song a Kakhetian cart-driver might have sung on his way home.
He expect to return to Georgia in a month's time.
Keep up the good work! Best Regards from snowless Germany, Ralph Hälbig
I hope we will meet us in the NEW YEAR 2008 !!!
Saturday, December 22, 2007
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