October has always been one of my favourite months and I don’t think I’m alone in that. We were away for much of this particular October, visiting three countries in the Caucasus region: Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.
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The pleasures of travelling aren’t restricted to the time when you are away from home. There is the fun of planning a trip of course, and the longer-lasting enjoyment of the memories you bring home with you. And often those memories are not of the major, famous sights but of the little things.
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Most people remember Joseph Stalin as a merciless dictator, responsible for the deaths of millions of people. But to the residents of Gori, the Georgian town where he was born, he is a man worth commemorating, whom they are proud to acknowledge. His childhood home is carefully preserved in the grounds of the museum that 'celebrates' his life.
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The Georgian town of Signagi (also written Sighnaghi) sits on a hilltop in a position that reminded me of many Italian towns. It still has signifcant remnants of its 18th-century town wall and fortifications.
