Georgia Minute by Minute

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2021/06/georgia-minute-by-minute.html

by library • 5 years ago

61 30 5 years ago

riowang.blogspot.com

zinekeller• 5 years ago

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• 5 years ago

Unfortunately I'm unable to browse this site with the HTTPS Everywhere plugin as I get stuck in an endless loop.

codemonkey-zeta• 5 years ago

Protocol ping pong:

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bellyfullofbac• 5 years ago

I suppose the workaround would be to disable the plugin for this page...

randallsquared• 5 years ago

Brave loops endlessly out of the box, as well.

midasuni• 5 years ago

Looks like some kind of protest against https. Some people don’t like it for whatever reason

poopypoopington• 5 years ago

Who are these people and what is this blog?

mnyary• 5 years ago

A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.

vmception2• 5 years ago

Its nice that you respect this person but can we retire the word polyglot? Saying it on behalf of someone else is slightly less worse than someone referring to themselves as one.

I would like to propose just saying “well rounded”, or “multifaceted”.

Its almost as bad as people that care about Mensa.

axiosgunnar• 5 years ago

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.

zerr• 5 years ago

AFAIK it is exactly that - fine for such faceless corps, not individuals. I've seen this across many "cultures".

uwagar2• 5 years ago

on the contrary, the person is trying to get closer to you than a over the counter by the book host.

sunshineforever• 5 years ago

I'd actually think it was a good sign to hear such a request.

maroonblazer• 5 years ago

Even if it was your startup she was attempting to circumvent?

throwthere• 5 years ago

Funny I read that and assumed the host was somehow scamming the author. I remember some sort of airbnb bait and switch to that effect.

Causality1• 5 years ago

It's interesting because they apparently don't find it as exhausting as I would were I placed in those circumstances. I wonder what parts of our culture they find a perverse waste of time.

gerikson• 5 years ago

Old-school blogging. I like it.

danielodievich• 5 years ago

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.

uwagar2• 5 years ago

enjoyed reading this. was in yerevan, armenia for work in 2019 and enjoyed the experience (thought i'd go back last year but no due to pandemic). particularly the train ride to lake sevan. they even let you in the driver's cabin to observe the ride!

neither_color• 5 years ago

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.

otar• 5 years ago

I’m so glad to see my hometown referred on HN, which is pretty rare…

There are many things that you could be annoyed with in Georgia and for these reason many young people flee the country in search of a better life. I somehow declined dozen of relocation offers on the software engineering roles and stayed alongside my big family, which I don’t regret.

If you ignore some parts of the uncomfortable environment, adapt to some of them and construct the comfort around you and your loved ones, I believe life can be comfortable in many places of the world, unless your physical existence is under danger.

From the other side, living in Georgia has many benefits: dollar-value, cheapness, amazing food, really good and cheap wine (for 10 USD you buy a bottle which costs 25-35 abroad), beautiful and diverse nature, safe environment… and steady flights to the EU countries (which I got to used before pandemic) makes travel very easy… I was literally flying in EU every second weekend.

kevinstubbs• 5 years ago

გამაჯობა! So pleasant to see that this is for Georgia the country. I have been living here in Tbilisi for about 6 months now and haven't gotten tired of it one bit.

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