[HN Gopher] Georgia Minute by Minute
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Georgia Minute by Minute
Author : library
Score : 33 points
Date : 2021-08-01 14:13 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (riowang.blogspot.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (riowang.blogspot.com)
| neither_color wrote:
| _Second rule: you should talk to a post-Soviet official by
| acknowledging the rule she refers to, but appealing to her human
| understanding. All this with great patience. Not demanding, like
| Western tourists who pound on the table in the name of their
| rights and reason, because with this you ruin everything in an
| environment where there are neither rights nor reason, and where
| the table is a hallowed treasure. In this way, you might inspire
| the person to find a creative individual solution to the problem
| within her space to maneuver. And usually some is found._
|
| I travel once in a while myself and this is excellent advice
| nearly everywhere.
| zinekeller wrote:
| A bit unrelated, but the page includes this bit of code:
| <script type='text/javascript'> if(window.location.protocol
| != 'http:') { location.href =
| location.href.replace("https://", "http://"); }
| </script>
|
| Why?
|
| Edit: worse, everything seems fine when in HTTPS. Legacy code?
| touchngthevodka wrote:
| Unfortunately I'm unable to browse this site with the HTTPS
| Everywhere plugin as I get stuck in an endless loop.
| codemonkey-zeta wrote:
| Protocol ping pong:
|
| (.*o*)r+++;s(*o**)
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| I suppose the workaround would be to disable the plugin for
| this page...
| gerikson wrote:
| Old-school blogging. I like it.
| axiosgunnar wrote:
| > As is typical in Georgia, she says, "Would you mind canceling
| your reservation at Booking? Now that we've talked, I'll keep the
| room and send the transfer, but why pay them a commission,
| right?"
|
| So glad that I do not live in a culture like that, where
| everybody is trying to defraud the other, even though I could
| care less for the profits of some faceless corporation.
| danielodievich wrote:
| I have so many fond memories of Georgia from my childhood and
| youth. Tbilisi was always a really fun place to visit, exotic,
| warm, subtropical, surrounded by high mountains, with delicious
| food and lots of wine (I didn't drink but parents did). The
| mountains are beautiful and there is some world class skiing to
| be had, although I am pretty sure - still - not with the world
| class amenities.
|
| We went to Gudauri twice, as I remember
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudauri). I recall seeing - and
| being incredibly jealous of - the heliskiing done by some
| visiting Austrians, they had access to essentially infinite
| terrain with just humongous vertical and would fly around all
| day. Except when a couple of them died in the self-caused
| avalanche. Oh well, live hard, possibly die hard.
|
| On the second trip to Gudauri, we stayed way up in the mountains
| near the resort instead of in the valley, like we did on the
| first trip. It was an excellent choice for first 3 days, but then
| it snowed straight for a week and produced the largest snowfall
| I've ever been at. You could only leave the hotel from the second
| floor balcony, and then you'd fall right through several meters
| of snow. My brother and I spent a lot of hours jumping from the
| top of the bus into that snow and trying to swim up. When we'd
| get tired, we'd play on a really torn up billiards table
| upstairs.
|
| There was no skiing as the resort was closed, there was no way to
| get off the mountain, there was no food and at many points no
| heat or electricity. There were, however, a lot of tough and
| unshaven guys with kalashnikovs who were stuck in front of the
| pass that they wanted to go over to do some fun fighting in
| nearby valley - we're looking at the end of USSR time here, it
| was Ossetia I think, and the dudes with guns got to eat whatever
| the hotel still had, but for us my parents just fed us sugar
| cubes with water for a few days.
|
| At the end of what was supposed to be a dozen days of glorious
| skiing, all of adults pitched in whatever money they all had and
| a few of the experienced mountaineers (my father included) left
| very early, plowed through the snow heading back down and about 6
| hours later brought a large MI-6 to get us all airlifted out. To
| this day this was my only helicopter ride, and a great memory.
| All of our stuff tossed into this cavernous beast, and just a few
| minutes flight, and we were back to civilization where I remember
| how wonderful road-side khachapuri tasted after 4 days of sugar
| cubes and water.
|
| Anyhow, I highly recommend this country. Incredible people,
| wonderful nature, great architecture, delicious food, tasty wine.
| Visit if you can. I am trying to convince my family to do this or
| Armenia, but it's a difficult sale not least because of the heavy
| lift to get there from USA.
| poopypoopington wrote:
| Who are these people and what is this blog?
| mnyary wrote:
| A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured
| polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books,
| food, fine music.
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