Career Break

  The Republic of Georgia could be considered the cradle of Christianity and wine.   While it was the second country (after Armenia) to officially adopt Christianity as its religion back in the 4th century, archaeologists have traced the origins of wine production back to 6,000 B.C. in Georgia. The Kakheti region in Georgia provides

Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born in the town of Gori, Georgia in 1878. Locals may still think of him fondly – after all, he is the local boy who made it big – really big. Indeed, my taxi driver in Gori bragged to me that his grandfather and Djugashvili were schoolmates. I arrived at the

  I thought I was going to die.   Every time we cruised toward a hairpin turn without slowing down at all, the cement barricades directly in front of us, I thought I would die. Every time we sped past multiple vehicles on the single lane highway with a semi-truck bearing down on us in

Tbilisi is one of those cities that just kept growing on me. I stopped through for the first time back in March, fresh off the Black Sea Ferry and on my way to Armenia to volunteer. The weather was cool and windy and I didn’t feel up to exploring much. The next time around, in

The high mountainous region of Svaneti in Georgia is the land of the Svans – a culture that has existed in Georgia since the 2nd millennium B.C. and a people who speak a 6th century dialect of Georgian that most others in the country can’t really  understand. Defensive towers that date as far back as

Okay, so I guess there are other places you could conceivably stay in the Kakheti region of Georgia. Heck, there’s probably at least one or two other places in the town of Telavi itself. But I really don’t know why you would want to stay anywhere other than Eto’s Guesthouse. I found myself not wanting