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I’ve been engaged in random cleaning of late, in doing so, I ran across this small key chain Ա – the Armenian letter A. I bought it in 2006 during my first visit to Armenia, when I was really enchanted with the Armenian Alphabet – when I bought and then foolishly gave away a […] My vacation to Armenia in 2006 was, for me, transformative in many ways. It was not an easy vacation – I did not (and still do not) speak Armenian or Russian. I also could not read the signs – the Armenian alphabet is unique and hard to puzzle out. While there, I picked up […] View from Yerevan Over the weekend I received a request from a professional translation agency to use one of my photos out of my Flickr stream on their new website. Unfortunately my initial thought was that the professional translating firm should work on improving their English before they work on their website. I wouldn’t […] I suppose that most of you probably are not following the latest news from Armenia, but I have been. After the recent election, which many claim to have been rigged, protests in the streets have turned violent—and when I saw a report that 8 people had died as a result, I was worried. I am […] Celebrating 50 years of Soviet Armenia was left unfinished; one day it will be an art museum. Photo Friday Entry (#38) | elmada.com Home Last Saturday, my Armenian Host and I took a day trip from his home town of Vanadzor to Gyumri. Our adventure cost us 6,500 Armenia Dram, which is the equivalent of 14,21€/19.27USD. Broken down, we paid 200 Dram to get from his flat to the city center; 1,000 Dram to take the bus from Vanadzor […] My last afternoon in Armenia, I headed to the zoo with my host. It was a last minute choice, and something left out of the Lonely Planet guide—and what a shame. The zoo is clearly old school—how I imagine an American zoo looked in the 1950s: too small cages, and plenty of opportunity for human-animal […] Busy making Armenia’s streets better. Photo Friday Entry (#201) | elmada.com Home |
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