Update on Armenia

see my blog entry on socialinvestments.com :
http://www.socialinvestments.com/georgia-armenia/

Blog of my visit to Georgia + Armenia

Check out my Georgia+Armenia blog which I will be trying to keep up to date during my trip. This

A few weeks ago I left my work in investment banking after 16 years. I feel the time is right to put again something on the map (of my life and of the world) where there is nothing by embarking into 'Social Venture Capital'.

The above blog link talks about business ventures.
Here are some photographs including the family holiday in Georgia

• short trip to Armenia
• monastery ruin of Kobayr
• (more to come, still unfinished .... )
  

Nico and daddy - 10th birthday special

As per our 10th birthday tradition Nico was allowed to choose a special weekend away with daddy. Jem wanted to see a Six Nation's match in Paris for his 10th birthday. Nico chose to go skiing. We spent a few days in Les Diablerets.
Click here for pictures or play our little video below.

The new "bothy" - by German master craftsmen

These guys made a wonderful new upstairs room in two weeks. Click here. We enjoyed having them around and they seemed to enjoy the product of their work. Christian Kohnen is a master carpenter whoe lead the work. I found them through german-mastercraftsmen.com.

Basler Fasnacht 2008

Fabulous as always. Click here.

Georgia !

Thank you all -

Gia, Malkhaz, Uano, Gogo, Tengis, Misha, Giorgi, Giorgi, Shota, Salome, Tamuna, Yoan, Avto, Avto, Kakha, mamao Jakob, Vacho, Anna, Gia's parents and all those whose name I haven't caught

- for your hospitality, generosity, craziness, for taking over my life for one week, giving me an experience of a life time and being new friends to me. I've survived your mad driving, your endless toasting speeches, your peculiar alphabet, your feasting until morning hours ... and have come out a new man.

• pictures from Tbilisi the capital
• pictures from Kakheti (an eastern region)
• pictures from Imereti (a western region)
• ornamental patterns in stone walls
  

Listen to

• Gia's father playing the accordeon
• Kakheti people singing at the table: __1__, __2__
• Aghani being played in Imereti
  
• Georgian Orthodox chants in the Sameba cathedral

Moritz

Moritz, our friend from Switzerland, arrived at the beginning of June. He will stay with us while he is learning English.
Lesson number one: cut an English lawn.
Here is Moritz' own blog.