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 [...]
What I do when I am not reading…
I told you last week that I would go out of town for a few days. I decided to tell you a bit of where I go and what I do when I don’t read and when I go out of Yerevan. As usual, I spent my days off with my closest friend in the [...]
Cycling around Armenia
Last week I spent a couple of days in Spitak, mostly just relaxing and hanging out with friends, as usual. Wednesday, though, was more eventful. That day a group of ten cyclists from Holland made a stop in Spitak. They are on a ten day cycling tour of Armenia. These cyclists did not stop in [...]
Translating, guiding and being interviewed
In the past week, I spent some time with a group of Dutch journalism students who are spending a little over a week in Armenia on a field trip. They are all in their third year in which they have to organize a media trip to a country in Europe in order to write articles [...]
