Yerevan, the Opera House (left) and Mount Ararat

Armenian's get a little misty-eyed about Mount Ararat. It's 40km away and 5165m high, which is acclimatisation territory for anyone wants to climb it, which the Armenians can't as it's inside the Turkish border now. Once it was Armenian and they haven't forgotten it, but the borders are closed as relations with Turkey aren't great.

The ice-cream taxi to Yerevan

April 10th 2009
Public transport: The Marshrutka I'd been working on Russian; I had a few dozen words maybe, but no grammar because I'd been doing it myself from a book and a CD in the car. But my tutor in Aberdeen, Anya, gave me a couple of hundred more words plus some basic grammar so I should now be able to hold survival-level conversations about buying tickets, asking directions and order ... read more

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Armenia prides itself on being the first nation to formally adopt Christianity (early 4th century). Despite periods of autonomy, over the centuries Armenia came under the sway of various empires including the Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Otto... ... read more

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