Holland wins final today but who wins in Georgia ? Marcel seems to loose many things but .... luctor et emergo !

Sunday 11 july 2010, Tbilisi Airport, 5 pm

Dear Sandra, Kalbato Saakasvili-Roelofsi,

How are y ? Y was on Imedi TV yesterday, organising a supra in Holland somewhere. Great ! I organised this many times with Marine Todua in Langedijk and Amsterdam.

Sandra, this year we saw each other already three times. I mean, I saw you, but you missed me. It is OK, you are very bussy woman now. First I saw you at Radisson Hotel, when y came to visit the reception of Queen Beatrix. When y came the security from my Holland embassy was coming to me with security from Radisson to make sure I did not come close to you. I saw too late that you was there entering the RADISSON. So I could not even say hello to you.

Metechi Palace 10 june elections night toilet stop

The second time it was at night, you came to Metechi Palace on the 10 th of june to have a toilet break. I was watching Holland news about the elections till 5 am Georgian Time in the morning on my own small Samsung computer and was surprised to see you there.

Also the moment was special, the day the Dutch 2010 parlement election results were presented on Holland NOS TV. I was thinking of the morning of 5 january 2004, the morning you became First Lady and we met shortly also in the same hotel. I am still curious what happened to the Prins Claus Tulip Bulbs from Sint-Pancras, my village, that I brought to your mother in law, the mother of Misha, on Gamsakurdia 33.

These symbolic bulbs must be somewhere in Tbilisi now, and if they have disappeared I bring to you new ones in autumn. But where I can deliver them ?
When I bring something to our Queen Beatrix, it is easy. I take the present and my passport to one of her Palaces and the security takes it after writing down my passport details. I have done this many times.

But when I come to your White House or old house behind parliament, there is always security who speaks not English and they always say "Tsadi !" - go ! - Please tell Misha that at least security from his enormous White House and his Parlement learn English !!!!!!!! To communicate with interested visitors like me. And let them tell visitors "mobsandit", welcome, and never "tsadi" anymore ! So unpolite, in a country where guests are seeing as presents from God.

I am not a terrorist, I am megobari of Sakartvelo, but your Mishas security think not like this.

WK 2006 Roelofs 1 shirt from Hink Megasport Alkmaar

The third time I saw y was in Philharmonia after the game Holland-Paraguay. I was happy to see you still have the shirt with Roelofs 1 on the backside that I brought to you via embassador Elderenbosch in 2006, when we were playing in the World Championsship Soccer in Germany. I had it made in Alkmaar, in the Megastore, from the Langedijk family Hink.

You was close to this shop, because it is opposite the Beatles Museum, that you visited with Eduard two years ago.
I was disappointed that you did not tell me you was in Alkmaar, because Langedijk where I live is only 8 km from Beatles Museum !

But I saw you in Roelofs 1 maika. I thought when you moved to your new Tetri Sachli you probably had so many clothes that you was not able to find it anymore.... But you was on Pirveli TV with it, showing that you also have Holland feelings, great.

Vano Eloshvili, the son of my friend Marine Todua, saw you on Imedi, and I was also there with my own imported Heineken Beer helmet. Sandra, why you dont bring many staphilosperi things to Georgia from Holland ? You have the contacts. And the money...

Our embassy is also doing nothing special about the soccer. I was in Goethe Institute and saw the new German embassador there, a very kind man. I met him in Radisson, on 28 th of april, with his wife. He was just a few days in Tbilisi. He is more friendly than our embassador mr. Langenberg, who refused to meet me and refused me to visit the Queens Birthday 30 april reception, while I send to him photos of the Queen taking from me a Bejo cabbage during Sail Amsterdam 2005 on the Groene Draeck, the Green Dragon, her beautiful Lemster Aak ship.

Prince Willem Alexander was stearing the ship in the waves of the Y.
I did my best to bring many orange things, but they also got stolen from me here in Tbilisi. Your Georgian people think I am Sinterklaas and they can take everything they see from me but this is not what I like.

I already miss one vuzuvuela, one Holland flag and also one orange water gieter, to give plants water, it was stolen from my cafe Toidverdroif in Shuamta, III Massiv.
I tried to shout to you in Philharmonia, but again you did not hear me. It is OK, I know one moment I will meet you and I feel now how you felt when the Dutch Embassy opened here in Tbilisi and they did not give you a job in the economic department. You wrote about it in your book.

I am waiting now for my court case with Baindurashvili from Saburtalo. And I hope they give some result before 12 august, the day I drive to Gori and than on to Langedijk, to be on time for Sail Amsterdam.

I asked your parents last year for help but they did not want to do anything for me. It is OK. But I organised for you nice meeting in Amsterdam in 2005 and you sold 170 books but later your father told me you was not happy with the organisation there.

Why you didnot tell me this ? As a President of the Holland-Georgia Foundation I was first responsible for evereything at that time.
At that time I was working together with Marechi Togonidze, who had all the contacts with the Georgian Embassy in Brussels and I found out in may 2005 that she is not a reliable person at all to work with.

I knew this already in december 2004, my friend Marine Todua warned me for her but I was so stupid not to listen to her. I trusted Marechi because her father has restaurant Aragvi in Mscheta and she was working for Rabobank in Utrecht. But I made big mistake, trusting her.

She took out the website from Holland-Georgia foundation and until today she has not returned some administrative documents.

Marine Todua sees who are liers in Georgia very well but I did not listen to her.

I also not listened to Marine Todua when she warned me for Giorgi Baindurashvili and I was stupid because this man lied to me so many times and he was never home when I came to his house in Saburtalo last years. He used my contacts at VWS Flowerbulbs in Langedijk for organising priglashenia and even gave me a bad name at the embassy.

He must pay me back already since 2006 more than 8000 euros. About this I have contract with Notar and my friend Zaza Maisuradze is now organising all court documents.

Last year I again tried to get my money from Baindurashvili but no result. I had to go home in september and found out that I was in financial problems. My Rabobank did not want to give me mortgage anymore. So I had to sell my house where my son Nidas was born and I also lost the very good friendship with Marine Todua.

This last I really feel horrible about because she showed me around Tbilisi and she brought me in contact with many people, one of them is Rezo Amashukeli, minister of culture in the Shevardnadze time, who wrote the poem Dolorosa. It is the bible story - the road Jezus took when he was sentenced to death in Israel.

Well, my life is here in Georgia also one big dolorosa, so I am a real looser here, I lost many things but as we say also in Zeeland.

Luctor et emergo. I struggle and get up again...

And this is what I am doing now. I fight with the people who lied to me before. Also with Ketevan Tsereteli, she worked with me in Au Pair business since july last year. But she decided to keep all my things and decided to make contracts with Au Pair organisations behind my back. We call this stealing in Holland, but Ketevan goes to church every week and has no regret so far what she has been doing with my contacts and things.

She does not understand that to be succesfull in Au Pair business, you must be honest, trustwothy and reliable to succeed in the long term.

I hear a lot about you, Sandra, I read a lot, but I think you are still an honest and hardworking woman whose fate it was to become husband from Michael Saakasvili.
I admire you but also feel sorry for you because Misha has big ambitions, but he also makes many mistakes and does not say sorry for it. Making mistakes is OK, if you are young, but not be able to say sorry, is a talent Misha should get out of his system as soon as possible.

Enough now, let us hope Holland wins tonight for the first time in History the final and let us hope for Georgia that the same amount of Dutch people who visited Spain for holiday will come to Georgia in the nearest future !

Until we meet in reality I shall keep on writing you letters via this blog, knowing that one day you call me and we meet and talk about why it happened like it happened. It is Gods will and I exept it.

Greetings from the quiet Tbilisi Airport, I drive now back in my 27 year old Golf to have douche in Shuamta and then get to Philharmonia to be with all the guests from Tegeta Motors and with Aliko from Zaandam.

Marcel Maria Brandsma
tel 895 31 8989

Texel and Georgia

Sandra and Misha and Eduard are visiting Texel Island on 4 may 2005. It is the first time a Georgian President visits Texel. Sandra is already pregnant from her second son Nicholoz, who is born on 21 december 2005. Foto Marcel Brandsma - Toidverdroif

Dear Sandra,

My house in beautiful Langedijk is 10 km from Alkmaar and 40 km from Den Helder. From Den Helder it is 30 minutes by ferry to the lamazi island of Texel. I found out in Mscheta in january 1998 that there was a Georgian war tragedia at Texel during World War II.

In Mscheta there were toasts during the supra about Texel people who helped the Georgian soldiers to survive. This story I did not know. Also I did not know that the biggest battle at the end of World War II was at Texel.

Nidas Johannes Petras Maria Brandsma

So after I visited Tbilisi in 1998 in january two times I went back to Holland to my already 8 months pregant girlfriend Aida Kleivaite from Kleipeda, Lithuania. She gave me a lovely son and so I became father of Nidas, born on 19 th february 1998 in my house.

I returned enthousiastic back from Tbilisi and decided to invite Nugzar Meladze in my house. I showed him all my renewable energy contacts in Holland. He invited his sister from Germany and his friend Zurab Zurabishvili, opera singer from Austria. It was for my friend Aida a very bussy time, she was not so happy with all these Georgian guests in our house.

But we went together to Texel also and visited the Georgian cemetery - Russenkerkhof - on the Hoge Berg close to Den Burg, the capital of Texel. It was more me the first time then and after have visited Texel beveri many times with all my Georgian guests.

Kaha Imnadze

The first girl I met in Moscow in november 1992 when I visited a conference about youth exchange between East and West Europe was Aida Kleivaite. She was sitting at the bar of the cruise ship Rossia and she showed me all Moscow in the weekend before the conference started. Now she is the mother of my son Nidas.

The first Georgian man I met was Kaha Imnadze. He also was on the Rossia cruise ship and he told me a lot about your country Sakartvelo. This was in nov 1992 and in 1993 Kaha called me and said that he was in Den Haag, following a course on diplomatic political relations at Clingendael Political Institute. He visited my village Langedijk, took a boat trip with my ship Toidverdroif in the country of the thousand islands and gave me a black keramic bottle with Georgian brandy.

Kaha was the man who started to renew contacts with Texel and he brought a Georgian football team there. Later he called me from Brussels and said, Marcel, I am now representing Georgia in NATO, that is my job.

Aida and I visited Kaha in Brussels a few times and also met his collegue Teimuraz Gamtsemlidze, who came later to Alkmaar with a young Georgian dance group. Kaha gave me the nickname The Flying Dutchman.

Kahas last job for the government was pirveli spokesman for President Shevarnadze. I saw the opposition protests on Dutch tv in november 2003 and send a fax to Kaha. "Is everything OK there in Tbilisi ?"

He called me after a day and said:"No problem, Marcel, it is all sponsored by American (Soros) money. These demonstrators get paid dollars every day for to be here."

Two days later he lost his job. Misha took over with red roses and Nino Burdjanadze was sent to Maastricht OSCE meeting and Misha became President on 4 january 2004.

Shevardnadze and Texel

Because Shevardnadze was the last Minister of Foreign Affairs of the CCCP or USSR I thought it is a good thing that President Shevarnadze visited Texel.

Because of my good relations with Kaha Imnadze I asked him in 2003 to find out if Shevardnadze was interested to visit Texel. The answer was positive. Kaha said: "Shevardnadze wants to visit Texel, but according to the protocols, your Dutch government must invite him!"

With this information I decided to write a letter to Gerrit Zalm, Minister of Finance in Holland and also responsible for EU-Caucasus financial relations. From his spokesman I found out that he was in Tbilisi a few times.

In october 2003 Mr Zalm wrote me a letter back saying that the political situation in Tbilisi was critical and it was better to wait to invite Shevardnadze to come to Texel. He was right, in november 2003 Misha sent him away with roses.

Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Julius Vischjager

I already met Julius Vischjager, chief editor for the Daily Invisible, a weekly dutch small newspaper. He organised for me accreditation to visit Maastricht OSCE because he knew Jaap de Hoop Scheffer personally. Thanks for this, Julius.

I was happy to take fotos there, because Burdjanadze only took tv and radio journalists, no fotographers.

Julius can always ask the final question to the Dutch Prime Minister in his weekly press conference. He already has this right for many decades. So when Shevardnadze had to resign for President, Julius Vischjager asked our Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende: "Is Mister Eduard Shevarnadze still welcome to visit Texel after what happened during Rose Revolution in Tbilisi ?"

Our Prime Minister Balkenende answered:"Texel is a beautiful island and everybody is welcome there !" So Shevardnadze is still welcome there and I think he should visit Texel before he dies.

Wooden Shoes and Langedijk and Krtanisi Residence

So in september last year before I left to Holland via Antalya, I brought a letter to the Residency of Shevardnadze, asking him if he was still interested to visit Texel. But no answer.

So again on 4 th may 2010, exactly 60 years after Georgians start an attack on Texel (april 1945) I brought again a letter to Shevardnadze and this time it was translated in Russian by my friend Svetlana Kniaskova, who lives in Moscow and translates Dutch literature into Russian.

Read her translation Siegfried from Dutch literature writer Harry Mulish from Amsterdam. Siegfried is about fake son of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.
I put this letter for Shevarnadze in a traditional dutch wooden shoe, a klomp we call it and delivered it in the morning of 4 may 2010 before I flew back to Amsterdam with Turkish Airlines.

And also I added a personal book from my own library about Texel tragedy, that I wanted to borrow to Shevardnadze to show photos from Texel tragedy. I think it is good if this book from Holland journalist is translated into Russian to tell the story from the Dutch side, because I discovered the Georgian version is a heroic version but it was a dilemma tragedy.

About this tragedy a Texel writer-musician wrote an opera. I visited this writer together with Tata Ivanidze from Vecheri Tbilisi newspaper and my friend Marina Todua from Iberia Times in november 2004.

So even now I hope Shevranadze visits Texel. I heared at his resedency he will visit Berlin in june 2010 because about his life was made a documentary. Berlin is only 600 km to fly to Texel, so lets hope Shevardnadze has the energy also to visit Texel.

Or he finds another suitable occasion, Sandra. What you think ? I was not happy at all with the words Misha spoke about the Texel Georgian Soldiers, words that I found on internet and that I have sent to you via your parents address in Zeeland.

Letters to a special Zeeland woman - Brieven aan een bijzonder Zeeuws Meisje

Visa application form for my visit in january 2004. Nowadays you can enter Georgia without visa. On the right you can see a foto that I took of Nino Burdjanadze together with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Colin Powell, when they met each other in Maastricht at the OSCE meeting, november-december 2003, where acting President Burdjanadze was collecting money for the new Presidential elections. On the other photo you can see me with in the back Nino Burdjanadze.


Sandra signs a book for Piet Sijm, director of VWS-Flowerbulbs in Broek op Langedijk. Sunday 13 march 2005, Amsterdam, Golden Bend Herengracht 518, Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis from Mr Jurn Buisman. Piet Sijm has offered to Sandra tulip bulbs that still have to be brought to the Botanical garden in downtown Tbilisi, a place Sandra recommended to put the bulbs.


Lieve Sandra, Dear Sandra, Dear Miss Saakasvili-Roelofs,

How are you and how is Eduard and Nicholoz ? I have met you first time on 4 january 2004. It was the day that you became Pirveli Kali of Georgia, the day that your husband Misha got 90 % of the votes of the Georgian Population.

I saw Misha voting in the State Academy Building close to Rustaveli. I gave him some photos of Nino Burdjanadze that I took in Maastricht, at the meeting of the OSCE. He looked surprised at me. On the photos there was Nino Burdjanadze with Colin Powell and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the president of OSCE meeting in Maastricht. It was his last job of his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. After the succesfull OSCE meeting Jaap de Hoop Scheffer became Secretary General of the NATO in Brussels.

Philharmonia

I saw you first time, Sandra, in Philharmonia, where your husband celebrate his victory with his party friends. I enjoyed it very much and was wondering what this young and ambitious President of Georgia was going to do now. I stayed that night in the Eden Hotel, because my friend Nugzar Meladze from Bagtrioni street in Saburtalo planned to go with his family to Disneyland in Paris, France.

I met Nugzar Meladze and his father Nugzar Meladze in Metechi Palace in january 1998. There was a conference about mze energy, opened by President Shevardnadze and his son Paata and Zaza Shengelia, deputy state minister, were organising this conference. Very interesting.

Shevardnadze had the idea to make from Georgia a laboratory for renewable energy experiments for all Caucasian countries and all countries along the Great Silk Road. Fantastic idea. I was the only Dutch (journalist) there and decided to help promoting this idea.

I started in march 1998 in Langedijk, 50 km from Amsterdam and 50 km from Texel, the stichting Holland-Georgie, the Holland-Georgia Foundation.

Ears and Eyes for the President

I saw you close when you arrived in Metechi Palace in the morning of 5 january 2004. You got flowers - red roses - from Pieter van der Sloot, Dutch telegraaf newspaper journalist, and from Peter d'Hamcourt, NOS TV - like your pirveli - journalist. I flew with him from Moscow together and I gave him in the Airzena plane a compliment about his book that he wrote about the Chechenia terrorist attack in the NordOst Theatre in Moscow.

You were met by our Ambassador Harry Molenaar and you asked me in the elevator: "From what medium are you ?" I told you: "I tell you later. Now you must speak with the Dutch and international press. You are going to have a bussy and important new kind of life."

At the International Press Conference in Salkhino room you told the press that now you became First Lady you wanted to be an extra pair of Ears and Eyes for your husband, the President of Georgia.

Well, this weblog will provide you with my experiences in your country Georgia over the last years and I hope all Georgians who read it, will enjoy my experiences and of course I hope they take my advises seriously and do something with it.

Unfortunately, I not only have very positive experiences but also many negative experiences. And since Misha is Capitan Pirveli of Sakartvelo and you are his Pirveli Sturman I wish that you do something with my experiences.

Because your country really can have a new golden age this 21 th century. And I am willing to help with it as much as possible.

With Dutch-Georgian regards,

Marcel Maria Brandsma
Shuamta 15 apt 38
III Massiv, Varketili
Tbilisi, Georgia
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