I Day 13 Armenia. Debed Canyon, Monasteries, Mikoyans and MiG 21s, and Fidel Castro. It’s a two hour drive from Lake Sevan to Alaverdi, the Debed Canyon. We savour our homely breakfast at the Lavash Teahouse. The selection this morning is omelette, frankfurters in a spicy gravy, pasta, dill salad (Marion’s favourite), tomato and cucumber salad, semolina, yoghurt, figs, stewed grapes and berries, quince in syrup, prunes, cake and bread. Lots of Germans in the restaurant this morning on a coach tour. It’s been a pleasant friendly place. A hardworking team of men run the catering, a harder working and smaller team of women do the laundering and bedroom changeovers. An ever hungry posse of good natured dogs hang about and try to scrounge food. We didn’t see a single cat in Armenia until six or
... read more