Author: Henry Roe

Henry Roe is a teacher and translator who has been working in Georgia since 2011, and is particularly interested in the history and culture of the Caucasus.

Georgia’s blazing summers are occasionally interrupted by hailstorms which smash grapes from the vines and wreck the tomato farmers’ crops. It was while we were sheltering from one of these in the shop – the centre of village gossip – that I heard about the trouble in nearby Tsromi, a larger village in the same Shida Kartli region of central Georgia. (More…)