If you buy a present in Georgia they ask you whether you want the vendor to put the price tag on. You can make the present look as costly as you wish.
or: A Georgian Guy is surprised to hear that in Western Europe the trains leave on time: ”and what about the people that come too late?”
Picture by DHZ23, a 'flat-extention' in Tbilisi. 27-10-'05
General information on Georgia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%2C_Caucasus
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for further reading:
-Sir John Chardin, Travels into Persia, and the East Indies through the black sea, and the countrey of Colchis, describing Mingrelia, Imiretta, Georgia and several other countries unknown to these parts of Europe, London, 1686
-Julius von Klaproth Travels in the Caucasus and Georgia 1807-1808, 1814
-Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time,1840
-Alexandre dumas, Adventures in Caucasus, Paris, 1859
-Hélène Carrière d'Encausse The great challenge; Nationalities and the Bolsjevik State 1917-1930, New York, Holmes & Meier, 1932
-Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches, London, 1949
-Andrei Makine, Once upon the river of love, London, 1994
-Neil Ascherson, Black Sea, New York, 1995
-Yo’ov Karny, Highlanders, A journey through the Caucasus in quest of memory, 2000
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