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Christmas Reflections – A Detour to Dresden

One year ago today, we left our home in Prague to begin this journey of ours. Our first stop was Dresden, Germany where we found the Christmas spirit in its Advent markets on our way to Southeast Asia.

Smoking Men - Dresden We have a soft and nostalgic spot for Christmas markets. We were first hooked by our experience nine years ago at the markets in Munich (Germany), Salzburg and Hall (Austria). The storybook images in our heads sprang to life there in the midst of snow-capped mountains as communities gathered at dusk to drink spiced wine, eat freshly roasted chestnuts out of small paper bags and shop for handmade decorations. Spices wafted from stalls serving waffles and candied almonds and gift stalls burst with nutcrackers and wood-carved incense-burning Santa figurines. Continue Reading »

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 Filed Under:  Audio Clips, Europe, Germany, Perspectives, Travel, Videos by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
No Comments   |   6 December 2007

Blue Eyes, Gold Teeth: The Fabled Land of the Svans

When you get there, you’ll meet the Afghan at the telephone pole.

These instructions given to us in Mestia by the Svaneti Mountaineering Tourism Center left us baffled. Is our mountain guide a member of the Mujahideen who’d lost his way and made his home in the mountains of Georgia? After all, in Svaneti just about anything seems possible. Continue Reading »



Article Series - Svaneti

  1. Svaneti: Why and How To Go
  2. Svaneti, A Mountain Inauguration
  3. Blue Eyes, Gold Teeth: The Fabled Land of the Svans

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 Filed Under:  Audio Clips, Caucasus, Georgia, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
4 Comments   |   19 August 2007

Kids of Tbilisi – Georgian Voices

We had high expectations of Georgia. So far, we have not been disappointed. The people are warm and the place is beautiful.

We spent our first day walking around Tbilisi, permanently lost in a sea of street signs in Georgian script (a beautiful script, but completely incomprehensible to us!). No shortage of friendly and genuine offers to help us find our way Continue Reading »

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 Filed Under:  Audio Clips, Caucasus, Georgia, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
4 Comments   |   2 June 2007

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