Protest bij de Nederlandse ambassade and MMB brings new development in mutual cooperation between Georgia and Holland

Marcel visits the Rose Revolution consert in Rotterdam, De Doelen, organised by jemali Makaradze, in april 2004. here you can see him with his two invited friends from Tbilisi, Marina Todua, and Marina Jijiashvili, who plays violin in the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra from Djachtang Khachidze. The two other persons are famous Georgian singers, one of them is David Gomarteli.

Lieve Sandra,

I got a mail today from Joop Daalmeijer about your CD project for your classical station. What do you think of the idea that the next project will be bringing here second hand bicycles from Holland ? Or is Keti Melua so popular that she will bring 2 million bicycles from Bejing ? Do you remember when you was in Amsterdam at Geelvinck on 13 march 2005 that I gave you also a CD from Keti Meluah that was sent to me by her manager ? At that time nobody knew Keti Meluah, but now she is famous everywhere ...

I will protest coming friday 1 October from 08.00 am till 12.00 noon to our Dutch embassy the Langedijk (my village where I invented many actions, started protestgroups and new political parties that became the biggest of my Langedijk very much, three times! - ) opposition way.

In dutch I already warned the Ambassador Langenberg, chief of the Holland-Caucasus countries. I go from Hollanduri Shuamta cafe Toidverdroifi to Metechi Palace on my Gazelle bicycle. And I take my orange chair, a present from House of Orange www.house-o-orange.nl Au Pair IAPA director Ellen in Den Haag. Because I was not allowed to sit in the gras, a chair will do better in the royal stapilosperi ?

Can you ask Misha if he can block the Bush highway like he does always when he goes or leaves from the airport ? I like that all the police patruli on the way see me going, protect me and encourage me.

If I fix it I will also take an Amstel umbrella that I got via CEO JeanFrancois van Boxmeer, CEO of Heineken, who I met at the yearly Heineken shareholders meeting in 2002. At that time he was - being Belgium - responsible for the special beers and he got the idea to buy Botcharev brewery in Peterburg. He has been to Tbilisi also.

Amstel is available now here in Tbilisi in Amstel CANS AND BOTTLES and I have three AMSTEL umbrellas taken in my caravan all the way from Alkmaar. Thanks Habbo de Vaere !

It can be hot and sunny in de North shadow of Metechi Palace at our entry from Embassy. Do you know that there were plans to build a solar embassy in Tbilisi in 1999 ? ECN, the netherlands Energy Research Centre in Petten looked at it, as an idea for the Georgian Solar Laboratory, you can ask Nugzar Meladze.

Would you think it is possible to plant there some flowerbulbs, eg the Prince Claus orange ones that I brought to your mother in law in 2004 ?

I still have no idea where they went, but Mishas mothers chocolate cake was unforgettable ! But they are lovely and Prins Claus baptised them. Do you come to baptise them with Sameba water if they are as beautiful orange as the onces I saw on the photo in the house of the family Koedijk on the Dijkstal road in Sint-Pancras, mesobeli of Alkmaar ?

The Koedijk Ojachi - family - developed also the yellow King Bumibol tulip for Thailand, because their sun married a Thai gogo - girl. He made a very nice DVD how they met and I cried from admirement when I saw this excellent DVD.

Maybe they can make a Saakasvili or Roelofs tulip ? I was so stupid to forget to invite the family Koedijk to come to Amsterdam to sit on the first row when you gave two lectures on 13 march 2005. But I gave the family Koedijk a copy of your signed book.

On my way to the MP ... I hope soon Sakartvelo patrouilli will get also mountain bicycles like the Holland police.

If your Misha promotes tourism,me coming from Holland, I think within a split second of bicycles. But here the bicylces are not. Maybe eti ori. Why, Misha ? You did not see the Dutch bikes at the Winter Olympics of Vancouver ?

Kethy Melua sings about two million bicycles in Bejing, that is a fact. But Tbilisi fact is that there are ramdeni ?

And Misha loves so much to cycle in Holland with his ojachi...Sandra. Why you have not told him to make the new tetri MOUSTACHE bridge that connects Rike with Charden suitable for bicycles also ? Is it so quiet where you go cycling with Misha in Zeeuws Vlaanderen ? Have y tried this in de dunes of Schoorl-Bergen-Egmond close to Alkmaar ?

Your Misha and Gigi are bringing in a lot of asfalt, what about bicycle options ? In the summer everyone is in the village or at Batumi but in the rest of the year cycles can be used everywhere and to get uphill you give an unemployed street vendor 10 or 20 teri or you just walk. Here is all the time Georgian Time, so no hurry.

Talking about Georgian Time, how is the owner Malchaz of Georgian Times newspaper? Is he back already ? Or still in Moscow ? He seems like a nice guy, a bit like Willem Oltmans, enemy of the Dutch government - like me ? - who had friends at high places in unfriendly Dutch politics countries like our former Indonesia, after the Independence in 1949.

Every time, the same problems, but the Kavkas people are definitely more agressive and violent people,more than the rest of Europe. Because of their history and continuous struggles here. Kort lontje - heel kort, levensgevaarlijk - zouden wij in cool emotieloos vlak Holland zeggen. Ask the German Nazis, that survived the last battle on Texel Island what they thought of operation Djenrazdenia in april 1945 when all the island was almost cleared by Georgian soldiers.

A terrible tragedy for all parties, Misha. Dont be too heroic about it. The Texel people are still not forgetting what happened there and they have ambiguous feelings about the last fights in World War II. No waste of bullets, only sharp knives and thats it.

I want Shevardnadze - last minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR - to go there,to Texel,, together with Rezo Amashukeli, miniter of Culture in the Shevardnadze Presidents time (Amashukeli is not so healthy for it, my friend Marine Todua told, Batono Rezo arginda does not want) and than he can die, we say first see Napels (in Italy) and than die, but my advise to Eduard Shevradnadze is, first visit Texel and than die !

Shevarnadze wanted it too, when Kaha Imnadze asked him this in 2003. But there are protocols and they tell that Holland had to invite him.

I brought my wooden shoes with in it a letter translated by my friend tardjimani Sveta Kniaskova in Moscow and a Dutch book - I want it back, it is from my private collection, dont keep it, batono Shevarnadze - to his Krtanisi residence on the night of may the fourth, the Holland war memorial day and was told that he was going in june to Berlin for a documentary about his life premiere. But he has not gone there yet.

Well from Berlin it is not so far flying to Texel Island, only 600 kilometer and there is an airport on this lovely island. Dont forget to take the best Georgian wine and cognac and exchange it for Texel wool and cheese and invite all tourists there to Georgia !

I think Shevradnadze is more clever in expressing his words than you did on the fourth of May 2005, Misha. Being foreign minister of USSR is just another piece of gatchapuri than being President of Georgia with faraway megobari warloving George Bush.

We say in Holland that it is better to have a good mesobeli than a faraway megobari ! here, too ?

Bush is from the type -- Just throw boms and the problems are solved ? No, they get worse !!! Sandra, you must translate the song of Boudewijn de Groot about Meneer de President in his tetri sachli in Georgian.

Misha, you think there are no Mother Georgia statue type of kali outside Tbilisi ? There are beveri and if you throw bombs, you get back a knife. a Russian one, that killed to many innocent people, including our Stan Storimans. Bombarding with I-pods and computers is better and dont forget CD-DVD players... ! I liked it in your UN speach.

Your country could be first where planes are throwing out communicating devices. Do this in Afganistan for a start. And send your lamazi gogos there and let them show Georgian culture in Afganistan and all Talibans will become Talidans. Mesobeli Putin will think, wow, that is tactica. Misha sprays love and culture and his wines that are stuck in the storages or transferred in more spirits. Well, let the Georgian culture be bombed in all Afganistan !!! What Obama will think about it ?

Sorry Sandra, I am anti violent and I let my heart speak.

I like Misha wants everywhere dance lessons on schools in Georgia. Your dancers are fantastic ! Young and old, fantastic. I visited the Evgeni Festival on the way to Lisi lake, what a fantastic atmosphere there was, but hardly any tourists from abroad.

I walked there on my wooden shoes. I am jalous at the dance capacities of your people, that is fore sure.

How long we must wait until on Rustaveli is a red dutch type of bicycle road ?

And how long we must wait for bicycle rent ? Last year I met from Green Movement from Vienna Chris and together with Malchaz from Georgian Green Movement we spoke about projects. One of them was cycling !

From every country bring some to Tbilisi.

Can I park my bike next to the EU flag at the Parliament ?

Yesterday I was not allowed to stand or sit there too closeby, again bevri Tsadi this week on tuesday and later this week I will park my bike there where is EU flag, just like all people do at the Binnenhof in Den Haag, business as usual.

But here it will be probably again T S A DI ! T S A DI ! Well, opposition said at the same place for months in 2007 and 2008 M I S H A T S A D I, but M I S H A stayed !

I will also start this week an association like I did in Holland, the Holland-Georgia foundation. It will be like www.bag.ge Hollanduri-Sakartvelo associatia. I will be President and it will be a Dutch style transparant democratic vereniging.

United we stand and party, kruisbestuiving van de culturen van twee kleine maar zeker niet onbelangrijke landjes aan de zee met de laagste below sealevel polders en de hoogste bergen van Europa. Van top tot teen.

Well, finishing with my last idea. When Rasmussen NATO boss is here ask him if Nato can fly Georgians who were kicked of the streets because they can not sell anymore there bananas, garagura, peanuts, sigarettes, clothes, on the ulidzes and metro entrances, like in my Varketili.

I wonder how many street vendors lost their jobs and how are they compensated ? I suggest a flight to Texel, or Berlin, or Brussels, with Nato fleet. Operation Toidverdroif - passtime - seems a nice name, isnt it ? I know how it is to live life in the poor areas. Not enough puli money for food ...... !

How nice it would be in Putin gives permission to fly over Russian territory ? I have dreams, who hasnt ? And why not start with hijacking a Nato helicoper in Georgia and fly to the Kremlin,like the two wing one engine airplane that landed on the Red Square of Moscow a long time ago ?

But ofcourse informing all the Russian anti gun equipment not to shoot this Don Quichote helicopter. I like to be a verstekeling- stowaway - on it because it is an historical unique flight !!!!

Ask all Nato citizens this and who will say no to it ? Nobody, because how nice it is to see peacefull flights in the sky while y are down on the ground, waving and wondering, where are they going to ?

After Red Square a stopover in Berlin and than seeing the Holland windmills and polders. Of course, throwing out many Georgian promotion and let Europe see how beautiful the Georgia culture is.

My motto was during my period as President of the Holland-Georgia Foundation... If you dont want to go to Georgia because you have no time than we bring Georgia to you ! We did it succesfully but hardly support from Georgian business and government.

Why you was not enthousiastic, Vachtang Chkheidze, councellor for Georgia in Holland and Belgium, when you visited the house of Buisman in 2004 ?

One year later I brought Sandra there, it was NOT Marechi Togonidze !

How long we must wait before these touristic tours can be done by Georgians ? Lets try it for one day, and let it start in Georgia. Where started so many things. NATO should be like the Vlootdagen in Den Helder. One or two days using the army and navy for peaceful use.

You think Putin will say no, if in the Nato helicopter are all children from Abchazia, Ossetia, Azeria, Armenia, Tsinvali,and all these other Caucasus peoples ?

Their parents and grandparents grew up with this way of traveling but that is not possible anymore, because two leaders can not cooperate ?

And communicate ?

Let the children be one day Presidents and the problems are solved for one day. And maybe forever ?

God wants this, but is patient enough to wait forever because he invented his own time, nowadays called Georgian time because Georgians came too late when God divided the earth. !

Are you still in New York, Misha ? Or you fly with Rasmussen together from Brussels ?

Tell it your UNESCO representative to spread this idea. Children dont like war, only the army toys !!!!! Big children also and they shot so many people death in the internet and games that they have no idea what damage happens when people really are killed !

Where can I shoot with a Kalasnikov here ? Or fly with an Antonov ?

I was lucky, I was never in the Army, I cannot handle this disciplin, I am a free bird, not a war robot !

I dont have the time to wait forever, God has, I am Dutch, time is money but I love my time in Georgia, but being Dutch, I have to get out for a while to really appreciate what I have, bringing back to your house all the good things that you saw on your travels and cleaning the garagura that you thought it was normal, you took it for granted, but being somewhere else you realise it is time to get rit of it and replace it by a better variant !

Sandra, I am curious what Misha will say tomorrow to Rasmussen. How is Jaap de Hoop Scheffer by the way ? Misha, do you remember I gave you photos that I took from Burdjanadze and Colin Powel with OSCE president good old Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ? I gave you them when you went voting in the Academy of Science next to Rustaveli metro on the 4th of janaury 2004.

Ciao, Marcel, the Flying Dutchman must get ready for ?

To be continued !

If it is impossible, just fly the USSR conflict zone children to your white house and show them lamazi Tbilisi, you will be making very many happy children and their parents too. What was the name again of this Operation ? Operation Toidverdroif !!!!

Go to langedijk, close to Alkmaar, and find out how you pronounce it. This funny everyhing covering word, tijdverdrijf, toidverdroif !

Tbilisi - Holland blues

Toidverdroif with capitan Marcel on the Northsea canal, 18 august 2010. On board are matros Vano and Dato Eloshvili from III Massiv, Tbilisi. Cargo is Langedijk cabbage from Jan and Bertus Bruin. The cabbage is grown from Bejo seeds with the name Eton. The flag of Toidverdroif is this time from Caucasus Georgia. In 2005 Toidverdroif brought Lithuania ship called Sud 1 from Nida, Klaipeda to Sail Amsterdam. And in 2000 thanks to Toidverdroif the replica of Shtandart, flagship of Peter the Great from Peterburg, Russia, came on time for Sail Amsterdam 2000 !


Pathefoon Dirk with Holland bakfiets transport bycycle and Nidas and Marina on the way to Vomar supermarket in Langedijk near Alkmaar to buy food to make georgian supra for megobari (friends), mesobelli (neighbours) and ojachi (family) summer 2006

Dear Sandra,

How was your holidays ? Have you visited Holland ? I drove without my tardjimani Zaza but with ori matros, Vano and Dato, by car all the way from Tbilsi - 5000 km - to Amsterdam to visit SAIL. We had fun there, but at the same time promoted your husbands country. On my Toidverdroif ship was the Georgian flag.It was recognised by our Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander, who was sitting in his mothers boat, De Groene Draeck, the green dragon, in the Y-harbour.

Willem Alexander said to me: Is dat de Georgische vlag ? Is that the Georgian flag ?

Later on sunday Queen Beatrix received from us a cabbage from Langedijk, like many other ships. She asked for one, because she also got one cabbage five years ago. The cabbage was thrown by Vano, my Sakartvelo matros. You can see this on you tube if you search for koningin (queen) and kool (cabbage). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMchDgPoAy8A A better movie was made by AT5 Amsterdam TV and SBS 6 TV interviewed us.

The Queen with the foto of the cabbage that she got was published on front page of Telegraaf, Hollands biggest newspaper with daily two million readers. I brought two cabbages to Tbilisi that were all Sail on my boat and one I wanted to give to my embassy representatives Ambassador Langenberg and Heino van Houwelingen, because this year two times they "stoofden mij een kooltje !" How I must translate this, I do not know. But you know what I mean.

One time I was not welcome at the reception of Queen Beatrixs birthday in Radisson,30 april 2010. And when you came there, security distracted my attention, so I did not see you when you entered the hotel.

Second time they refused to give visa to my assistent Zaza Maisuradze, who helps me already one year to find my way in the political and juridical and street labyrinths in Georgia. It was on the day I brought flowers to Gori for Stan Storimans second year after he was killed there, 12 august 2010. It was already second time my embassy refused Zaza a visa !

My embassy is afraid he will stay in Holland and dont return, but he lives here together with his mother in horrible situation in Gldani ! He looks after his mother, who was advocat for many years ! Well, I was very angry at my embassy representatives about this !

Tsadi Tsadi Go Go !!!!

After Sail I visited with my matros Vano and Dato many places in Holland and in september we flew together with Turkish Airlines back to Trabzon and took a bus to Tbilisi. Flying with Airzena is too expensive for us but I also boycot this airline ! Because they could not organise to send my first flower export to Tbilisi, that costedme a lot of money !

So many trucks are always waiting at the border of Sarpi, waiting to enter Georgia.
Why this line is so long, Sandra ? I feel sorry for the drivers who have to wait there for how many days ? Many of them are Turkish trucks and Turkey is Georgias neighbour and very important business investor.

Tell Misha to get rid of this propka as soon as possible ! It is a shame for Georgia, that wants to be the Singapore of the Caucasus ! A Georgia that raves about the freedom of doing business here.

Going with the bus from Turkey through Georgia border is another interesting experience. But at the border the Georgian border gards are friendly and they say all, "Welcome to Georgia !"

Why you have face control there, I dont know. We dont have this at Schiphol airport. Misha got this as a present from the US, Sandra ?

No more banana and puri and cigaretta kalis and katsi on the street Today - saturday 25 september - I walked from Shuamta III Massiv to the metro Varketili and discovered all street vendors have disappeared. I wonder what these people are doing now and how they make some money to survive ? Bread goes up from 60 to 70 tetri (up 16 %). I wonder if the disappeared streetvendors went to vote for mayor and if yes, if they voted for Gigi Ugulava. And if they will do again vote for Ugulava after they had to leave the Tbilisi streets ?

I hear opposition will again start protests and being an opposition specialist I am curious how the protests are next week. And how many people will show up ?

Biggest rose in Tbilisi in metro padwal

It was nice to be on Rustaveli again. I got out at Mishas Tavesupleba Moedani metrostation. Inside there is nice rose but it is imposible to come close to this rose and make a picture of the biggest rose I have seen in Tbilisi.

I can imagine why it is protected because in the underpasses of Freedom Square beautifull Georgian history explanations are destroyed by vandalists. But, I hope I can pass one day the fence in the metro to make a foto of this biggest rose together with me ?

At the parlement fontankas were working and I walked up the stairs. I always check the mitsa ground in which the EU flag is standing. Please, Sandra, ask Misha to put a new EU - flag there, the yellow stars are not so bright anymore. It is time to replace the flag ! The Georgian flags I saw from all political parties on the parliament area have great quality.

Like always, at the parliamant, security comes to me and they can say only one word I understand. TSADI ! It means GO ! TSADI !!!!!

I say to the security, do you speak English ? But almost no security at the Parliament or at the White House, the Tetri Sachli, the big palace Misha built, speaks English ! Every time I hear the word TSADI ! GO !

Sandra, your Misha says everybody must learn English, well let he say TSADI to all his security at parlement and residency to go to LEARN ENGLISH !!!!!!!!!!

So security can communicate with tourists and visitors about things and explain eg. where you must go to visit the parliament inside like we can do in Den Haag, to see our famous Holland democracy working.

I only was inside once when the President of the Dutch parliament Weisglass visited the parliament in Tbilisi. But in Holland we can visit our parliament when they are active. Ofcourse if you behave normal and I dont disturb the democratic processes. I dont think the Georgian parlement has this transparency. There is too much opposition, and the temperament of the Georgian people is too emotional, I guess ?

I asked Levan Gachechiladze and Konstantin Gamsakurdia if they ever have visited our parliament, but they never did.

I hope, Sandra, that your Misha takes them there as soon as possible and all other opposition leaders that want to improve your Mishas democracy. I can be their guide, I know the way and Julius Vischjager will help me with it.

Anyway, Sandra, walking around downtown Tbilisi, I discovered again new shops and bars in Perovskaya and Charden and other places were closed and disappeared. That is the reality of the market economy, but Georgia and Tbilisi need much more visitors and tourists, so more businesses will survive. And I know Misha is doing his best for this as much as he can !

Pegasus flies from Tbilisi to Istanbul and Europe !

I read today all newspapers and I am happy that Turkish Pegasus starts to fly cheap to Istanbul and European destinations ! But Austrian Airlines stops flights to Tbilisi because of economic reasons. Not enough passengers ? With Austrian Airlines I flew first time to Tbilisi in january 1998 !

By the way, I boycot Airzena as much as possible because in december 2007 they did not bring my first export of flowers - cut and pot - mitsa to Georgia and it cost me a lot of money and they gave me no service or excuses. Talking about flowers, many Georgians say that Sandra is here in Georgia queen in the flower business, but I dont believe this.

I think the people who are in the flower business are using your name and the excellent Dutch flower reputation ? I dont think you need this business and I dont think you have time for it ? The quality of the flowers in Tbilisi is not a real visit card for Holland, sorry to say this to you, Sandra, it can be much better !

Also I read about prisoners who get beaten in jail here. Is one of the sons of President Gamsakurdia who is in jail still in hunger strike ? In june I met a group of worried woman on the stairs of the Parliament area and they were protesting to improve the conditions of political prisoners. Can I visit the prisons here, Sandra ? Can youa ask Misha if it is OK ?

And I read in Georgian Times that there is finally a wine producers association for promoting together Georgian wine and wine history abroad. Please tell them that I have good ideas to do this in Holland and I am specialised in organising unique events for low budget costs with much free publicity. What Georgia needs !

Gouda Holland cheese and Georgian wine tasting in Alkmaar cheese market ? It reminded me of an old idea in 2006 that I wrote to you, but never had a reaction.
Send to the world famous Alkmaar cheesemarket - where Shota Arveladze was succesfull - wines from Georgia and organise a wine tasting there with famous NoordHolland Gouda cheese !

It is great place for it and all Dutch know that in Alkmaar starts the Victory. Why not for Georgian wines ? When AZ Alkmaar became champion because of coaches Louis van Gaal and Shota Arveladze there was no Georgian wine and champagne to celebrate the victory !!!!

I hear you was in Alkmaar a few years ago to visit the Beatles Museum with your sun Eduard and wonder if you ever received my idea about the wine promotion in Alkmaar ?
I was unhappy that you did not think of me to meet me there because I live 30 minutes cycling away from Alkmaar and you could visit the flowerbulb company VWS that
decorated your lecture room in Amsterdam with lilia when you was giving the book presentations in march 2005.

You still have a gift waiting for Tbilisi there, tulip bulbs. You told me to put them in the Botanical Garden Mitsa, but I had not had the chance to do this, because I got involved in a dramatical business cooperation with Giorgi Baindurashvili from Saburtalo, who turned out to be an unreliable business partner for me that destroyed my reputation, misused my contacts, lied to me many times and that still has to pay me back much money.

That is all for now, Sandra, I want go sleep now. I can be very critical about Sakartvelo but I love it here also very much ! I am waiting for a court decision about Baindurashvili, but I hear today that next weeks important things are going to happen so I can finally take my money back ? I have paid enough lesgeld now, learning money.

Georgian wine promotion to new dutch Minister of Justice ?
Talking about court, Liberal VVD parliament member Fred Teeven maybe will be Minister of Justice in Holland and I think I will present him a bottle of Georgian wine,if he gets the job, because he knows me, he lived in Langedijk for some years and when he started his political career, I helped him little bit. Is there any cooperation between Holland and Georgia in the justice ? I have no idea but it would be good.

Georgian wine promotion to new governor of Noord-Holland ?
Talking about wine, the bottle of Georgian wine that I brought to Newspoort newsagency in Hague in 2003-2004 was drunk by Johan Remkes, at that time VVD minister of internal affairs. Well, Remkes just became now Commisaris of the Koningin, Governor, in Noord-Holland. And last, but not least, I hope when the wine Association starts to promote Georgia wine abroad, I hope they also dont forget Borjomi mineral water !

I also saw Maartje van Wegen on dutch TV when I was in Holland and I hear she flies to Tbilisi beginning of oktober to bring classical CDs for the classical radiostation that you started here. When Maartje is here, maybe you can ask her if she can call to the Prince of Orange Willem Alexander and ask him if he comes to visit Georgia one time with Maxima, his wife ?

Our Royal Family was never in Georgia and I think they want come here. But our government will not let them go, I think, because our governement is afraid Russia, our very important trading partner, will not like this ?

Many questions, many answers, many ideas, Sandra, but you said that you are eyes and ears for Misha in january 2004. I hope you can handle this sort of toidverdroif kalashnikov bullets ?

Sakartvelo kaumardjos !

Greetings from Shuamta street, also to Misha and Eduard and Nikoesja,and your parents in Zeeland, that were not willing to help me to bring me in contact with you last year, when I was about to sink down financially and had to sell my house where my son was born.

Marcel Maria Brandsma sometimes also called Marcel Oltmans, with thanks from Julius Vischjager