I've just finished traveling Armenia with my half-Armenian girlfriend, Liza. It was the first stage of a 2 year traveling spree that we were both embarking on and very exciting for me because it was a chance to see the place where she had spent much of her childhood. We arrived in Yerevan on the 6th July and were picked up at the airport by two different sets of relatives, neither of whom knew that the other was waiting for us. They took us back through the outskirts of Yerevan, the capital, to the flat of Liza's great uncle, Edo. It was very hot and dusty, and half-finished tower blocks dotted the landscape. There was no door to Edo's tower block, and no lobby inside, just a small concrete room dotted with small graffitis, some of
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