Special Request to the President of Georgia

David the Builder, a statue of one of Georgias most famous Kings. The statue is placed along the highway to Mscheta, the old capital, and to Gori, the city where Stalin was born.
Marcel Brandsma in a flower shop in Saburtalo, just around the corner from the house of Giorgi Baindurashvili. The lillies that you see on the photo are coming from Tsavkisi, where Eldari Baidashvili grew them out of bulbs from VWS Flowerbulbs from Broek op Langedijk. The foto is made by Afto, a stylist who was working before in the Vaxi shop in Nikoladze in Perovskaya.
The bulbs were brought to Tbilisi by Marcel Maria Brandsmas indmezarme. In 2008 Marcel Brandsma drove from Langedijk together with Marina Todua from III Massivi a VW Transporter more than 5000 km to Tbilisi with in the minibus about ten thousand pieces of lilia bulbs.


Dear Sandra,

Today, friday 3 december, I have a meeting with your Ambassador in The Hague. This text that follows first is in Dutch and I have added it to this letter, because you say you will do your best to help your ambassador Shota with action and advise.

You are right, once I had felt the Georgian cultural showers, it does not leave me anymore. All my eyes and ears are focussed on you, because you promissed to be the eyes and the ears of the President on your first Pirveli Kali First Lady Morning at 4 am, 5 january 2004, in the Metechi Palace.

I have written a letter for the President that I will deliver today at 4 pm at your Ambassador in The Hague. I wonder if I get an answer and also how quickly.

This is from the side of the Embassy of Georgia in the Netherlands.

Onze website is vernieuwd! We hopen dat u bij het doorbladeren van onze pagina’s nieuwsgierig wordt om in Georgië zaken te komen doen, erheen te reizen, Georgische liederen en taal te leren, gerechten te bereiden. Als u eenmaal kennis hebt gemaakt met dit paradijs op aarde, laat het u niet meer los.

Ik wens Shota, onze nieuwe ambassadeur, veel succes in zijn missie en zal mijn best doen om hem in raad en daad bij te staan.

Sandra Elisabeth RoelofsFirst Lady van Georgië.

And this is the letter I have given to your Ambassador Shota.

I am a person who went to Georgia many times, started to do business there, learned the alfabet and the language and some songs, Zuliko and Tbiliso, enjoyed my times in Georgia very much but also got in many troubles and therefore I hope you can help me with solving some of the problems I encountered, Sandra.


To the President of Sakartvelo, Michael Saakasvili

The Hague, The Netherlands, 3 december 2010

Dear President of Georgia,

I had the unexpected "pleasure" to be deported from your lamazi Sakartvelo on the 26 th of october. I guess I am the Pirveli Dutchman who is deported from the capital of the Caucasus ?

Ofcourse I want have a process against this unfair decission, that felt like an attack, a robbery, an O V E R V A L your wife Sandra would say.

The first court case with my appeal was yesterday, 2 december 2010, 2 pm Tbilisi Court Time.

But it was cancelled because I was not informed about the Process.

A new process will be, if I am well informed, coming thursday 9 december 2010 in Tbilisi Court.

I would like to ask the Permission of the President of Sakartvelo, to defend myself in this court case, to come to Tbilisi as soon as possible, so I can prepare myself for this important court case, not only for me, but for the reputation of Georgias Justice in the Netherlands.

Please answer my question as soon as possible. I know you are very bussy, but maybe your wife Sandra is this weekend in Holland to celebrate "Sinterklaas" and I can fly with her on monday back to your beautiful country with bevri problems ?


Marcel Maria Brandsma

Note on 10 december

As you can read in my other letter to Sandra, the court has postponed my case until your birthday, the 23 th of december, so there is plenty of time for the staff of the President of Georgia to answer my letter... and hopefully I get a positive answer !

Tulip bulbs waiting and letter to Ambassador Shota Gvineria in the Hague

4 january 2004, Tbilisi, Rustaveli. Waiting outside the State Academy of Sciences Building for Michael Saakasvili, candidate to be third President of Georgia. Next to Marcel are Nugzar Meladze jr and sr, mze-energy specialists from Bagtrioni street, Saburtalo.

Dear Sandra,

On the website of the Georgian Embassy in our beautifull Den Haag, the Netherlands, home of our Royal Family and home of our Parliament and Minitries, I saw your photo and your introduction.

I like to have a meeting with your Georgian highest representative in the Netherlands and for this I wrote already two letters. Here is the second one. So you have an idea, what I wrote to him. Coming friday, 3 december, I have a meeting in the Embassy with Embassador Shota Gvineria in The Hague.

Broek op Langedijk, 25 november 2010

Dear Embassador Shota Gvinera,

How are y in bussy The Hague, just after Misha has visited Brussels and NATO meeting ...

In 2003 at this time acting president Burdjanadze was getting ready to fly to Maastricht OSCE meeting to collect puli for Mishas first election day on 4 jan 2004.

I was in Maastricht during this OSCE meeting and made fotos for your government because there was no photographers coming with the media from MZE, Rustavi 2, Pirveli, etc.

Nino Burdjanadze was very happy with the photos that were given to her by Harry Molenaar, our first Dutch embassador in Tbilisi.

On the photo you can see me when I was waiting for Misha outside the State Academy Building close to Rustaveli metro and Rustaveli statue and Philharmonia where Misha went voting 4 january 2004. I gave him some pictures when he entered. Pictures that I took of Burdjanadze with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Colin Powell, people y know off course....

I have sent you a letter at the beginning of november to have a meeting with you.

Until now no answer. I have called to your embassy and spoke with Eka. And I asked her to call me back so we can have a meeting.

But also no answer.

Last monday on Saint George Day I was again at your embassy but you was not there and the embassy was closed because of Georgian national holiday.

I have left for you traditional Langedijk kapusta ostrov boerekool from Peter Vroegop, farmer in my lovely city. To remember also the seventh - swidi - anniversary of the Rose Revolution Day, 23 november 2003.

Please check www.bejo.com if you have no idea what kind of cabbage it is.

Or ask Robert Revia, director of Bejo representative office in Tbilisi since 1998, when Mamaladze got for 200.000 US dollars tesli from Bejo after he visited Langedijk through my mediation.

You can also ask Vano and Dato Eloshvili from III Massiv, Shilda, about this cabbage, they helped Peter planting it when they were in Langedijk in summertime in 2007.

I have given some photos to you together with the boerekool where you can see them when they were my matros during Sail Amsterdam in august.

Oosterdel Boerekool taste best with Kvareli wine from Chavchavadzes winecellar but ofcourse wine from www.ktw.ge is also not bad at all.

Please let me know when you have time to meet me somewhere between Texel and Rotterdam. I am willing to come to you, knowing that you are very bussy representing Sakartvelo in our lovely Holland that has everything Georgia needs !

On the other photo you can see Marine Todua that I met on the 5 th of january and who helped me promoting Georgia in Holland in many ways. I have for Georgia a few thousand Holland tulip bulbs that have to be planted soon in Tbilisi before the winter starts.

A nice project we could do together with the Young Georgians who want to learn more about growing flowers in your very good mitsa everywhere in lamazia Sakartvelo.

Eg in the Botanical Garden in Ortachala but also on Rustaveli or where is the statue of David Tetri the Builder close to Tegeta motors head office ...

For this bulbs it is now or never, our dutch bulbs have no Georgian time, they need to be in the ground asap...


I am waiting for your answer,

Marcel Maria Brandsma
sme business man
director indmezarme MMB import export
director-owner sjepeze Sakartvelo Au Pair Georgia
journalist
Former President and founder of the Holland/Georgia foundation from jan 1998 / dec 2009.
Dorpsstraat 114 B
1721 BN Broek op Langedijk
Holland
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Deported out of Tbilisi !

Marcel at the big roundabout in Tbilisi. Nowadays the square is completely changed and in the middle of the square are built new roads and flyovers for the ever increasing traffic in Tbilisi, but in the summer of 2009, when this picture was taken, Marcel found the heart of this square a good place to plant flower bulbs, eg tulips, from Holland.

Dear Sandra,

How are y ? I have been officially thrown out of Sakartvelo on tuesday 26 october !

Before I was taken to Tbilisi court, totally unexpected and totally as surprise, I was captured in Asatiani for more than three weeks.

It is time you visit this place Asatiani, that urgently needs modernisation !

Your Psychiatrists and nurses are definately not ready to treat all the foreign tourists that get into psychiatric problems because of the culture shocks they will experience in the beautiful Georgia !

I have not noticed any significant changes since april 2009, when I was locked up the first time in Hotel Asatiani for "only ten days".

The only mayor change I discovered was the establishment of a special smoking room.

It is getting cold now in Hotel Asatiani.

I got tired from the tetri spagetti and the tetri caviar.

Tell Misha to bring bevri Borjomi and Likani and Kazbegi fruit waters to Asatiani.

Tell Misha to send an undercover patient to discover what the staff of Asatiani is doing to make the patients better !

It was disgusting what I saw. No respect for the psychiatric conditions and no listening to the wishes of the patients.

No, I saw and was treated myself with very much agression, both physically and verbally and the only help I saw was the use of samlebi, medizin from the Farmaceutical Maffia.

Send Pirveli Nursi Inga, Pirveli psychiater Roman, my psychiatrist Chatuna, patient Levani and sanitary Vachtang, Jimmy and Giorgi to Heiloo, Holland and I will show them how Holland deals with psychiatric patients anno 2010.

They will be in shock !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been deported from Georgia and was transferred on a voluntary base to the Willibrodus Psychiatric clinic here, where my father was also many times.

It felt like coming back in Paradise after the Hell of Hotel Asatiani.

Please go there with Gigi Ugulava and make it priority number one to keep Asatiani at the same place. Block the selling of this unique place and renovate it the way Willibrodus has developed the last decades !

I have asked Mr Hugo Koetsier, geneesheer-directeur or General Director to cooperate with Asatiani already one year ago.

But it makes more inpression if Misha writes a letter and let me deliver it together with the best Georgian medizins against depression, Georgian wines and mineral waters and the targuna and other Kazbegi fruit drinks.

Heiloo is only 5 km from Alkmaar, Sandra, where you was with Eduard to visit the Beatles Museum. I spoke with the assistant of Topadze in Kazbegi office and they offered me to use Kazbegi distribution to distribute the in Holland very famous Texel beer, with on the bottle the Lighthouse where Georgian soldiers were having the last battles in april 1945.

Nice offer from Topadze. I think Texel is the place to open the Georgian restaurant where Germans, Dutch and Texel people can enjoy the Georgian food.

I hope Shevarnadze comes to Texel before he dies.

Lets organise every year on Texel the Texel cup, a soccer tournament with participants from Georgia, Russia, Holland and Germany.

I got this idea in Asatiani when I spoke with Giorgi, who loves soccer and who lives in Saburtalo, close to Shota Arveladze.

The tournament can be organised every summer to remember the tragedy of april-may 1945.

But also it can be a good idea, Sandra, to organise such tournament in Tbilisi. Eg in the play court in III Massivi, but also in the stadium of Dynamo Tbilisi.

Georgians love soccer and it is time they join the European and World Championships.

Sandra, ask Shota Arveladze to bring Louis van Gaal and ask Prime Minister Rutte to send Guus Hiddink to Tbilisi and Dick Advocaat.

Or Bert van Marwijk ? When I was small he played left forward at Alkmaars AZ.

Sandra, you are from Zeeuws Vlaanderen and I was happy to see you in Philharmonia in july.

Did you think of me when y put on your Roelofs 1 maika ?

Come with Misha to Alkmaar again, visit Heiloo and send a good representative from your embassy in the Hague to me to see where on Texel and in Alkmaar-Langedijk we could open a small Georgian restaurant.

I will call to your Hague embassy on monday to have a meeting with Shota, the ambassador that you have appointed recently.

Today in the Telegraaf I read there was a Georgian wine presentation in the Embassy. Ofcourse, there is more good places to organise degustation.

I know the Alkmaar area on my thumb, I can find a location for free and dont worry about publicity costs, I am expert in FREE PUBLICITY.

I have lots of time now, because for one year I am not welcome anymore in Sakartvelo.

Julius thought I was kicked out officially this week because your security thinks I am a spy of Russia.

I am agent trinadz-trinadz. 1313. From the Langedijk KGB, Kapusta Group Broek op Langedijk.

I am the minister of Foreign Langedijk Affairs and I am not only friend of Georgia but also friend of Russia. Why ?

I will tell y when I am rehabilitated officially by a degree of the President of Georgia.

The Tbilisi court case was for me one big ABRACADABRA, an OVERVAL, a surprise, but I remember the translator Maia from our Embassy saying many times...

According to the Law of foreigners in Georgia .... You have done this and that and that is why you are going to be deported tonight....

I am very unhappy about this all because I have done for your country so much !!!!

Marcel Maria Brandsma, schipper van de Toidverdroif, op weg naar Tbilisi Sea club

Please look after my Beduin caravan in Shuamta ?

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