The Family Team
- Your tour leader, Christopher Grzybowski, is a native British citizen who has had contact with Georgia since 1980. He initially taught English at Tbilisi State University and subsequently spent some 30 years working as a Georgian/Russian media monitor, analyst, and translator. In addition to English, Georgian, and Russian, he also speaks French, German, and Polish.
- His Georgian wife, Mzia, is a piano and Georgian polyphonic singing teacher by profession with an incisive knowledge of Georgian cultural and historic sites, customs, and traditions. Her family stems from the famous wine-growing region of Kakheti in a beautiful corner of which is located Chateau Dzveli Gavazi where guests will be based for six nights.
- Mzia's sister, Ketino, a teacher of Georgian folk dancing by profession, oversees the daily running of the chateau and its organic vineyard. She organizes the wine making and tasting, conducts traditional bakery and cookery classes, and ensures that guests have a memorable experience of village life.
- Fourth family member, Nino, is a young actress with the highly regarded Kutaisi Theatre Company. She has a vivacious personality and is passionate about showing off her country's many splendours.
- Nika is the highly experienced driver of our immaculately maintained minibus which is his pride and joy. He has a wonderful sense of humour which he manages to convey with his limited albeit steadily improving stock of English vocabulary.