Tag Archives: Tbilisi

A Caucausus Mountain Bike adventure in Khevsureti

By Andy | Published: 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 [...]
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Bicycle Critical Mass Tbilisi, Georgia for Climate Week

By Andy | Published: 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.
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Weddings, unlike lightning, strike in the same place twice…

By Andy | Published: October 6, 2009
This is the first post in a while to the Ride Earth blog because I’ve not been cycle touring recently. I returned via Public transport back from France to Tbilisi  at the end of the summer. I met Tom in Venice and we spent a long and strange evening sleeping on a bench drinking wine [...]
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A Two Month Storm

By Andy | Published: July 13, 2009
Long time since I wrote, I know. In fact I’ve been spending a lot of time in front of a computer. I’ve been writing every morning and now have written 95000 words of my book. I met one of my sister’s friends a couple of days ago who has just finished writing a book she [...]
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Delhi to Georgia

By Andy | Published: May 11, 2009
After leaving the Iran embassy having been rejected for the visa a second time, I cycled over to the travel agency, and booked a flight to Istanbul. Flying is not the best transport for me because I feel that it cuts out the point of travel which is the adventure of meeting people and having [...]
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My photos headline on Citizenside.com

By Andy | Published: April 23, 2009
I heard about a public-driven journalism website from a friend, http://www.citizenside.com and I uploaded some photos I took of the ‘cells’ that appeared all over the main street, Rustaveli, Freedom Square and around the Parliament building yesterday morning. These metal framed cuboids covered in plastic sheeting are housing protesters claiming the president Saakashvili has been [...]
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A life without goals is going nowhere

By Andy | Published: April 23, 2009
Being in a new location, and having hatched new plans I’m finding myself at that stage of tilling the ground and sowing the seeds to hopefully grow into burgeoning new projects.
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Demonstrations in Tbilisi

By Andy | Published: April 13, 2009
I arrived back in Tbilisi in Georgia just in time to witness a demonstration in a similar mould to the one Tom and I witnessed when we arrived for the first time back in January 2008. 50,000 people gathered on the main street, Rustaveli, outside the front of the parliament building. There is a large [...]
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Back in Tbilisi- On the lookout for work

By Andy | Published: April 6, 2009
“Build it up, tear it down” “A period of expansion, and a period of consolidation”
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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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