Georgia on my mind

In Tbilisi, 200 years of Russian rule is history - and the diggers move in to begin a face lift of the crumbling Imperial architecture.

Until the bright future of fast food outlets arrives, local ladies continue to bake and feed the neighbourhood.

Behind the facades, life goes on in courtyards lined with rickety wooden stairs and balconies.

The pure and simple lines of the metro lead deep below the city. Built in 1966, it was the fourth in the Soviet Union after Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev.

In the Kashveti Church of St. George, 1,600 years of Georgian Orthodoxy is tangible as a bride awaits her turn to marry.

Ahead of her, a knot is being tied.

They walk hand in hand into their technicolor future, whatever that will bring.