Golden Tulip Hotel Yerevan

... but they often say «Merci»

You're welcome – Khndrem

Can you help me? – Karogh ek indz ognel?

Where is...? – Vortegh e...?

Opera house – Opera (just the same) =)

Cinema – Kinotatron

Museum – Tangaran

Street – Poghoc

Avenue – Poghota

Good bye! – Tstesutyun!

Good night! – Bari gisher!

... I was to find out that all the tickets to the nearest month are sold out! So it is better to book the tickets a month or ever 2 months before your visit!!! Here is their official website to book the tickets to Santa Maria della Grazie: http://www.cenacolovinciano.org/sito/ho me.html
With other museums there are no problems so far.

... us up just after nine, and a good hour S.E to a Roman Ruin at Garni, amazing , , then onto what can only be described as something from so, so ancient times, it is dated 330, but high on a mountain is a OLD Monastery called Geghard, in my wildest dreams I could never have imagined this, huge and mostly carved into the rock face, many crypts, little cells with alters, hauntingly ...

I finally moved myself on from Tbilisi to Yerevan (though I still fly out of Tbilisi, on the 25th!). The ride to Yerevan was uneventful as far as marshrutka rides go. The border guards to Armenia were actually very pleasant and made the bureaucracy go easier. After Kazakhstan and Russia, I have a fear of all border guards (I've had not fun times in both countries). When I went up to the first window, the guard looked for my nonexistent visa in my passport, then ...

... like drawings of the dead people. Some even tell the whole stories, for example a grave of a family whose car fell down the cliff. It gets quite cloudy so let's move. On the way Sako proudly shows me a monument of MiG contructor and some high politburo politician and insists on taking photos;). Next stop is Hangpat Monastery situated on a hill with some views of the canyon. There are tourists, a thing unseen in Georgia. It is also very very very nice and I just keep admiring. Btw, in ...

... Really warm on summer, and a pleasant, but occasionally unbearable cold on winters. So Armenia was a big chance for me to experience snow. Why not? A lot of people get to live their lives and end it without even holding it on their fingers. It was one of those things in your life that you promise you'll never give up until you experience it. I flew Air Arabia through coach with three of my friends. It was unfortunate that the airplane was not that ...

... we huddled together attempting to stay warm. After the paperwork was finished we walked back out to the cars for inspection. This was one of the first times that the guards had asked to look into our cars. I was nervous at first opening the trunk of Dante. We had a large medical kit that I was sure they were going to call drugs and the oil in the back of the Mercedes had already been an issue leaving Turkey. I worried for a few seconds but than realized as ...

... góğ og ég geri mitt besta til ağ ná öllu saman á mynd. Kirkjan er eins og ağrar kirkjur í Armeníu, gömul, hlağin og hlağin átrúnaği sem er svo şykkur ağ mağur finnur şyngdarafliğ aukast innan viğ dyrnar. Í kjallaraherbergi í şessari kirkju er skrautleg kista meğ líkamsleifum konu sem var grıtt í hel fyrir einhverjum öldum fyrir şağ ağ neita ağ giftast e. konungnum. Mér verğur hugsağ til kynsystra hennar sem eru grıttar til bana í dag fyrir engu meiri sakir og ...

... enjoyed it. On our way back to the house, we saw a rainbow near Mt. Ararat. It brought to mind the time when God promised with a rainbow-at this very mountain-that he would be gracious and never destroy earth by flood again. It was an awesome thought, illustrated near the place where the promise was first made. It was a time of reflection upon God's enduring promises of mercy and love. We miss you all. May God ever bless you with his grace. --Bianca Acosta

... of town, I joined a couple of Japanese students both studying in neighboring Iran) and an interesting 65 y.o. very young-at-heart guy from California that I met on the train, and went on an excursion by shared taxi. We went to the Gorni Temple - a Hellenic temple dedicated to Helios, the Roman god of sun. It was rebuilt in the 1st century (even though archaeologists found inscripstions dating back to 8th century BC). Geg********astery was our next destination. It was ...