Category Archives: Georgia

Environmentally Sustainable Building Technology in Tbilisi

By Andy | Published: June 3, 2008
I have recently designed a website for a new building in Tbilisi. It is the first Class A+ building, designed by a German architects Wandel Hoefer Lorch. It is an impressive looking structure with a glass fascade which stands out amongst traditional Tbilisi buildings. The special thing about the building is that it is one [...]
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Practicing What You Preach

By Andy | Published: May 2, 2008
Last night I went to teach my English speaking lesson at the ‘Georgian-Scottish-House’ in Tbilisi. Recently I have had another gear-change with regards to my thinking on how I can do my bit to help reduce the now widely accepted human-induced climate change that is happening. A main aim of Ride Earth is to observe [...]
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Space and Time

By Andy | Published: March 31, 2008
I’m in Tbilisi and hopefully this blog will fill in what has been happening with me. As you may know I arrived in Yerevan for the first time, by bicycle, on the 24th January. I met up with Tom in the city after we had cycled alone from near the Georgian border. Fanny came out [...]
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Tbilisi Beneath the Ice

By Andy | Published: January 17, 2008
When Sylvester, the Polish cyclist we met on Christmas Day in Batumi, was explaining that conditions were difficult here for local people in Georgia, coping with the cold midwinter, I remember thinking, surely it’s not as difficult as cycling round the world? What a weird comparison and abstract concept. People in places with extreme weather [...]
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