Ok, so Jenny flew to Georgia today (the ex-Soviet state not Atlanta, Georgia) to sing in a music festival there. It's a great honour that her choir was invited to go, I doubt any others from the UK will be there, and the Georgians are all amazing singers! That sounds ludicrous to say (!) but it seems to be a tradition over there. They have a song for everything: going to work, before meals, after meals, morning song, bedtime song, returning home from work song, and needless to say, drinking song. So all in all it will be an amazing experience.

Anyway, Jenny left me the details of the hotel she would be staying in (which I duly entered into my amazing synchronized calendar system so there would be no danger of me losing it) and so today I thought I'd check the place out on Google Maps.

This was the result:

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The more perceptive of you will have noticed that all the roads, and indeed everything else, disappears as it approaches the Georgian border. There could be 3 reasons for this:

1) there are no roads in Georgia (unlikely)

2) Google hasn't got around to mapping this area yet (given that they've finished all the surrounding areas I'd say also unlikely)

3) Google tried to map the area but all their staff were assassinated by Soviet secret agents.

(in case you were wandering neither of the search results were in fact the hotel in question)

I have heard from Jenny and everyone arrived safely and apparently their hosts are all extremely friendly (I guess they all are at first), but I shall be happier when she once again is homeward bound.

Georgian choir Samzeo have an amazingly original sound and their MySpace page has some great recordings - click here.