Blogs from Armenia, Asia - page 8

-SP- Cruzas la frontera de Irán a Armenia y en el despacho del jefe de control de pasaportes ya no ves al amigo Khomeini, sino un retrato de Putin con cara de malo. José que cambio más chungo he hecho. Bienvenido a Rusia, colega! Llevo dos días en Armenia. Por ahora aproximadamente unos 5 km de carretera planos en y 135 en cuestas. Y que putas cuestas! Si quieres imaginarte Armenia, pues imaginate Suiza, y quitale los viaductos y los túneles. Para cagarse. Hasta la capital Yerevan me quedan 240km, los 70 últimos llanos y lo demás puteado. Hace frio, con suerte un poco por encima de 10 grados, con mala suerte, como ayer, lluvia a 5 grados y un poco de granizo. Un saludo OIHAN... read more

July 10, 2015 – I woke up feeling good today. I even had breakfast – some bread and a hard-boiled egg. Finished packing and went upstairs for the day tour back to Tbilisi at 9:00. There were six others in the group, including Americans. Such a surprise to me that I keep meeting Americans here. Two girls were living and working in Jordan, studying Arabic, and both will go to grad school this fall for related topics. Claire will go to Cairo and Hannah to London. There was also Jeremy, starting grad school in Miami in the fall. Sevi, Greek, was traveling for a couple of weeks here, and then there was also a young German couple. She just finished her degree to be a doctor. We had a large minivan so everyone was able to ... read more

July 7, 2015 – *Disclaimer – be warned that this entry has disgusting bodily functions mentioned* The train ride to Yerevan from Batumi went quite well, actually. I left the guesthouse at 2:30pm, giving myself an hour to get to the train station before my train left. It is about 25-30 mins, so it should be fine, right? Well, the traffic was crazy on my street and I had to wait about 10 minutes for the right number minivan to come by, and then we barely moved for a while. I was getting a little nervous, but of course it worked out fine. I gave my ticket and passport to the ladies checking and they studied it and studied it. I think one was learning the job, but not sure. Either way, we didn’t speak the ... read more

سفر به دور دنیا با دوچرخه با بردن دوچرخه ها به ارمنستان با اتوبوس به همراه مامان و خواهرم شروع شد.تقریبا ۲۵ ساعت تا ایروان راه بود،تو اتوبوس ما با گروهی سخره نورد و یه پدر و دختر دوچرخه سوار آشنا شدم ،بعد از مدتی نرسیده به مرز باجگیران متوجه شدم اونا برای دوچرخه هاشون پولی به راننده ندادند و به من هم گفتند این همه پول برای دوچرخه زیاده و خلاصه بعد از کلی جر و بحث با شاگرد راننده که تلاش میکرد با احمق فرض کردن بنده این پول زور و ۳۰۰ هزار تومن بگیره راضی اشکزدم به ۲۰۰ بعد هم که رسیدیم لب مرز گفت باید دوچرخه و همه باراتون برید پاسپورت کنترل و منم گفتم دوچرخه چرا ،گفت باشه پول الان بده که نخوای به زحمت بیفتی ما هم به پلیس میگیم ... read more

Geo: 40.5475, 44.9557The concept of a secret restaurant - it sounds like a viral marketing campaign straight out of the Twitterverse, something that is definitely plausible in this day and age of pop up restaurants. But tonight's dinner at a secret location didn't quite come about in that manner, though its origins did lie in the big bad world of the Internet. It wasn't me that discovered the place, but Ivan, a fellow traveler from Milan.I really don't know how he managed to hear about this place, even though he claimed to have found it on TripAdvisor. My subsequent Internet searches yielded nothing, so I suspect finding a restaurant this hidden and this good could only have been accomplished through connections to an Armenian secret society, or by overhearing talk of the place in hushed tones ... read more