Dvin Hotel Yerevan

... centers of Christian World. Especially mother cathedral Edjmiadzin &#8211; the residence of Surb Katoghikos - the head of Armenian Apostolic Church. <br><br> There are some churches in this town, a gimnasium, and a museum. In this museum there are a lot of interesting thing to view, but the most thrilling one is the spear with which Jesus Christ was killed on the Cross so that he won't suffer long ...

... get hurt. They get into this windmill wind-up that never seems to end, hardly the perfunctory little lapel-swishing that the average Latino does nowadays. My first introduction to Armenian culture was in LA, where 'Little Armenia' is partially contiguous with 'Thai Town'. That always seemed like a strange random pairing until I finally walk the streets of Erevan itself, and the most striking thing is all the cafes, upscale and with various ...

... we arrived, one of which was the flea market at the weekend. We are all enjoying being together. There is talk of Junko and the children coming back to Nelson to have time with me later on in the year. I would like to say a special thank you to the friends of mine who have have made comments on the blog site, it is lovely to hear from you and to know that you are enjoying the tales from Armenia. Much love from Marion.XXX

... run on Sunday. I wandered along the road until stopping to ask at a little kiosk when and where could I catch a marshrutka or taxi to Haghpat. Before remembering that it was Sunday, they told me they thought it would be in an hour. When I prepared to stand and see what came by, one of the girls came out of the kiosk and told me to come wait inside with them. It ends up the kiosk is run by a grandmother, mother, and daughter. The mother and daughter were living ...

... the Armenians were Christian friends of the Muslim and under the protection of Islam. Westerners who observed the genocide reported nightmares for the rest of their lives. The State Museum was a little bit more cheerful. Happy beautiful carpets and handicrafts, stone crosses (Armenia was the first country whose government accept Christianity for the country, even before Rome), and an exorbitant number of ancient representations of fertility gods and ...

... ranges behind. I recommend walking to the end of the peninsula, there are nice views. In the church there is also some ceremony and who do I bump into: the bishop from yesterday;). I'm quickly done and thus I take a taxi (500AMD) to Sevan City some 5km away and there a marschrutka back to Yerevan (there are no marshrutkas from the peninsula). Sidenote: here people are crazy about Prague. Even the taxi driver had some relatives there and he's moving there this winter. There is also a ...

... a first course, I had Pkhali, balls of greens and minced nuts topped with pomegranate seeds. For the main course, I ate khashlama, a lamb and potato stew. A small plate of homemade halva finished the tasty night. This was the first day. All-in-all I would stay in Armenia eight days, and would acquaint myself with the Armenian definition of Jesus, khatchkars, Armenia's presidential election, the Celtic connection, an Iraqi refugee, a music video and the modern ...

... complex that was begun in the final years of the Soviet regime but was never finished as from the air it would spell CCCP. Also, the natural gas pipes are all above ground!! Another common Soviet trait. Yerevan houses a museum of rare manuscripts, the Matenadaram library, which had a copy of Aristotles' "Categories" transliterated into Armenian. One of the documents in the library had clear palimpsest ...

... sjalf og skrair nidur i kladda upplysinar ur theim. Ad tvi loknu stimplar hann vegabrefin og afhendir tau naesta manni sem fer einnig i gegnum allar upplysingar og hringir thaer sidan i embaettismann i oryggiseftirlitinu og ad tvi loknu hverfa vegabrefin ur augsyn Leidangursforingja inn i annad herbergi i hendur 3 starfsmanns sem ad thvi sem vid best vitum er starfsmadur leynithjonustunnar og thad eina sem their segja med jofnu millibili medan a thessu ...

... less than 10 minutes and got our music ready in order to play. Now, one of the tables in the right end (where all the high bells are) was slightly slanted so all the bells were falling off. We made sure that we don't let the bells roll off as we play them. Crazy when you need to double or switch bells, cause there was the roll-offs to keep in mind. It was group work, definately, as we actually managed to sound really good. On the way back ...