Reflections on a weekend in Goris
I spent last weekend down south in Goris with my friend Adrineh. We left Yerevan by marshrutka early in the morning and as always, once we hit the mountains outside the city, I started drinking in the landscape. Once again I realized how much I love getting out of the city and how, deep down [...]
Pictures from Tbilisi
As promised, here are some more pictures from Tbilisi. On the highway between Tbilisi and Gori, we passed several newly built settlements for the IDPs of last summer’s war between Georgia and Russia. I took the picture from the moving bus, so it is not very clear. On the right you can see the white [...]
Remembering
Yesterday was the 18th anniversary of the Spitak earthquake that caused so much death and destruction in the northern part of Armenia. The earthquake affected the lives of thousands of people forever. Not just the lives of those who survived or lost loved ones and whose lives changed forever in the course of just a [...]
Artists and wheelchairs
Some time last week through Groong I came across a newspaper article by English artist Mick Oxley who had spent two weeks in May in the Italian Village of Spitak working with local children. I downloaded the article to my computer, but didn’t get to read it until late last night, because I spent four [...]
A Dutch teacher of Armenian traditional dances
This week’s Hetq Online carries an article about a Dutch woman, Tineke van Geel, who has a passion for traditional Armenian dances and teaches them all over the world. I had come across her name several times before, but I had never got around to mentioning her here on my blog, but this seems to [...]
