Category Archives: Armenia

An amalgamation of pleasant experiences.

Posted on 19/06/2016 by awtytravels

The Caucasus is one of the handsomest places I’ve been to. Everything coagulated in an extremely pleasant amalgamation in mind, something I’m eager to share. There isn’t the tiniest bit of logic in this collage of photos; call, if you may, … Continue reading →

Posted in Armenia, Caucasus, Europe, Georgia | Tagged Azerbaijan, Baku, Caspian Sea, Caucasus, Europe, Georgia, Kalashnikov, Oil, Street art, Tbilisi, Yerevan | 8 Comments

Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

Posted on 16/06/2016 by awtytravels

The service on the Azerbaijan Airlines flight was appalling. Having been treated to an atrocious pre-flight video, an attendant who clearly desired to be everywhere but there started thrashing around cups of weak coffee and tried, indolently, to sell stale … Continue reading →

Posted in Armenia, Caucasus, Europe | Tagged Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Genocide, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Syria, Turkey, WWI, Yerevan, Yerevan Memorial | 11 Comments

Potholes, bribes and a Foreign Office advice. Riding the marshutka to Yerevan.

Posted on 29/05/2016 by awtytravels

It is said that Paul of Tarsus, whilst riding from Jerusalem to Damascus, was blinded by an intense light, spoke with a divine entity and, there and then, found his faith and converted to Christianity. Now, I haven’t been blinded … Continue reading →

Posted in Armenia, Caucasus, Georgia | Tagged Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Foreign Office, Georgia, Kirants, M16, Marshutka, Mercedes, Mountains, Nagorno-Karabach, Tbilisi, Villages, Yerevan | 14 Comments

Notes from the fringes of the Empire: Yerevan.

Posted on 11/05/2016 by awtytravels

Yerevan lies in a bowl shaped like the tongue of a cat, delimited on one side by the Hrazdan gorge, and on the others by steep hills, on which stand strange perches and other abstruse relics of the Soviet past. … Continue reading →