Stuart WadsworthMar 29, 201911 minA Short Guide to Tbilisi Faded Charm Flying in, the first thing you see is the TV mast: a huge, flashing monument which is lit up like Blackpool tower with garish neon lights, a kits...
Stuart WadsworthMar 26, 201911 minA Short Guide to YerevanWelcome to the Cognac Capital In the shadow of the fabled Mount Ararat, Yerevan stands at a crossroads between Asian and European civilization, and for centu...
Stuart WadsworthFeb 22, 201911 minA Short Guide to BakuWill There Be Blood? Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, the most populous of the three Caucasian capitals with around two million inhabitants, has come a long way ...
Stuart WadsworthApr 30, 20184 minWisła Put to the Sword by QarabagThis is a match report of a football game I attended in Baku, Azerbaijan, between Wisła Krakow and FC Qarabag in the first round, second leg of the Europa Cu...
Stuart WadsworthApr 30, 20187 minGeorgian Food & Drink Overview One of the great joys of travelling in Georgia is discovering the relatively little-known cuisine of the country, which can come as a pleasant surpr...
Stuart WadsworthApr 10, 201811 minCaucasian Daze (Part 9/9) - Armenia - Nagorno-Karabakh: Surrealism and Tragedy A Philanthropic Diaspora Millionaire After spending a few days in the fairly unremarkable capital of Stepanakert, I decided to head to the countryside for a ...
Stuart WadsworthApr 8, 20189 minCaucasian Daze (Part 8/9) - Armenia - Nagorno-Karabakh: Haunted by HistoryAn Enigma Wrapped in a Mystery Nagorno-Karabakh roughly translates as ‘mountainous black garden’ in the Azeri language, though the predominantly Armenian pop...
Stuart WadsworthMar 21, 201814 minCaucasian Daze (Part 7/9) - Armenia - Yerevan: Brandy and Barbecues Completing the Jigsaw Having spent nearly two months in the Caucasus, and having seen both sides of the traveling spectrum, from Georgia – where I was treate...
Stuart WadsworthMar 20, 201815 minCaucasian Daze (Part 6/9) - Azerbaijan: Bad Vibes In Baku"And when foreigners come to this city all they talk about is the heat, dust, and oil; why do they not love our city?" - "Because they are foreigners" - Ali ...
Stuart WadsworthMar 15, 20188 minCaucasian Daze (Part 5/9) - Georgia: Tusheti - Hitch-hiking to ParadiseLeaving Kakheti - By Truck From Kakheti, which is a kind of wide, flat expanse sandwiched between two mountain ranges, you are always looking up to the surro...
Stuart WadsworthMar 14, 20186 minCaucasian Daze (Part 4/9) - Georgia: On the Grapevine - KakhetiHeading to the Georgian Tuscany Georgia's wine region in the south east of the country has been trumpeted as a secret gem in the European viticulrural scene ...
Stuart WadsworthMar 11, 20188 minCaucasian Daze (Part 3/9) - Georgia: Cave Monasteries of VardziaBottling it in Borjomi After my 'exertions' in the mountains, I decided to kick back for a couple of days in Borjomi, a quaint spa town in the southern part ...
Stuart WadsworthMar 11, 20188 minCaucasian Daze (Part 2/9) - Georgia: Kazbegi's Mountains of PoetryBraving the Buses The heat got too much eventually and I had to escape the city. Five days of searing temperatures, over 40 degrees every day; Tbilisi was a ...
Stuart WadsworthMar 8, 201811 minCaucasian Daze (Part 1/9) - Georgia: Tbilisi's Faded EleganceA Fine Reception Flying in, the first thing you see is the TV mast: a huge, flashing monument which President Saakashvili has, for reasons best kept to himse...
