Best Western Congress Hotel Yerevan

... stylish city in a forgotten corner of the former USSR, very western, with a lot of chic shops, restaurants, outdoor cafes and performance places offering a lot of cultural events. But on the other hand, it also has its fair share of ugly and broken Soviet era buildings, and these two elements co-exist next to each other, giving the city a somewhat eerie feel. This feeling intensified when I observed that the citizen of the city seem not working very hard and the ...

... Victories’ Day, Last Bell (children graduate from high-school).

However, in this happy period we have an awful date, on which we remember those indescribable.. I don't know how to call it.. well, actions made by the Ottoman Empire leaders and their army in 1915 we all wished they hadn't made... This is the saddest day during all the year in Armenia, 24th of April. Everybody remembers their ...

... worth of long legged tourists. Feeling evermore lonely, surrounded as I was by wallet devouring savages, it wasn't long before I was alluding my situation to the film 'I am Legend' and losing my camera on the second day was abit like the scene where the dog dies. Things picked up when I left northern Armenia and headed toward to green sanctuary of Dilijan- the 'Armenian Alps'. On the way I met a rather interesting character- Jilles. Jilles (pronounced ...

... out of the trunk. What? I asked him what he was doing since this wasn't 5 Sayat-Nova Street or the building I had pointed at or even being turned around. He shrugged. "It would be hard to turn around. You should have told me to stop earlier." I did tell you to stop earlier! How did you not understand, "Hey, that is my building." And then why did you tell me you would turn around? Why did you pick here to stop? Does it look like Sayat Nova 5? What's the point of ...

... before the 11 o'clock bus left for the site's village and I needed to be back by 4, which meant the next bus at 2 o'clock wasn't looking promising. So I splurged the $20 and took the taxi to the site. I've been loaded down with candy everywhere I go. Today in the taxi the driver kept stuffing me full of sweets, yesterday at Garni the bathroom attendant kept giving me candy (you just eat it, nod, and hope that wrapper has stayed ...

... the hills. Seeing one direction of highway is flooded, people don't hesitate to drive in the opposite one. Btw, I've heard the flooding made it to the top news;) [even international ones - Georgian ones deal with local stuff all the day: if you wanna know that a cow died, it's there]. At the Sadakhlo borders it doesn't rain anymore and I'm getting optimistic. Although there are just a couple of cars, it takes a while. Armenian visa is 15000AMD~37e. Unfortunately one has to pay in AMD ...

... on-canvas art--reds, yellows, oranges, greens--was in brilliant contrast to the snow-covered artist and brown trees of the surrounding park. "The color should sing. It should express the perception of the essence of life which is in every human being. By using color, I can even further enhance what I see so that the light could be more brilliant in my works." ~ Martiros Sarian. Back on the couches surrounded by this art: Anahit's mother--Anahit was describing ...

... in Yerevan, and possibly nearby cities if they are lucky. Armenians even in Yerevan still don't appear to make a regular salary and the figures sound only absurd to our ears, but with this aspiration to be European, costs are also gradually reaching European pricing...must it be that the apparently corrupt government representative's children are the ones living it up at the packed cafes every night? Meanwhile, near poverty and lack of ...

... 1915. Ofogur sjon thad og dapurlegt til thess ad hugsa ad oareyttir i skjoli fyrri heimstyrjaldar hafi tyrkir geta brent, skotid, hengt, svelt og pyntad i hel 1.5 miljonir armena. Kiktum vid a graenmetismarkadi og versludum auvitad smavegis af hnetum, sem eru ju raektadar her, rusinum og aprikosum. Kvoldmatur a eftir og vaentanlega afmaeliskaka thvi ferdafelagarnir eldast odum og thetta er tridja afmaelid i ferdinni.

... So, after the Manuscript Museum this morning, we had a concert just outside Yerevan, and then returned to Yerevan to go to the Genocide Museum. We went back to the church to drop off bells, and then headed off to lunch. After lunch, we went to the Refugee camp. This was extremely hard for us, because it is difficult to see people living in such poor conditions. It seemed as though these people were really greedy, and at the time I think we were all a little annoyed to see ...