market in the mud

Seems I have manage to get another job. I will write about my trip, about the cultural collisions and about my photos for a tabloid magazine here in Tblisi. Good life! at the same time I was introduced to the very interesting online magazine “Beat magazine“, check it out!

Life in Tblisi, what a life it is. I went for the food and produce market on a rainy morning this week and made some new friends among the cheese monglers at the corner. My shoes were not fit for the mud and are not loosing their “one week old”-look for the more rustic, ” been there done that”-look that I try to avoid when since I am only owner of one pair of walkable shoes (the other pair eats holes in my heels the size of silver dollars).

Leaving the complaining aside I’ll tell you about a real ruff taxi ride home yesterday. It makes me really wonder if biking here is such a good idea. Everybody is driving a taxi it seems, no real rules for who can or how to do it, just add a taxi like sign at your roof and go for it. Anyways, I waved down a small golf and got in. It costs about the equivalent of 20 SEK to go anywhere in the city (metro and bus is about 2 SEK). The driver accelerated the little car up to 90 on the small road, dodging cars and pedestrians while leaning over the steering wheel, like beginner drivers do, not really givning the impression he was familiar with drivning at all. We stopped at a red light (thank god!), he did the cross sign three times, rushed the engine and raced out, passed a police car and accelerated the wreck to 110km/h on the city street. I was trying to look as if it was normal practice but in reality I was scared shitless.

little lady trying to scoop up a small lake that formed at her market spot

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