Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

Victims List

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

If you are looking for anyone you can either call the numbers above- Armentel are offering the calls to Sochi for free today and tommorow. Or you can click the SECOND page of this post where you can find the full list which I translated from A1plus.am’s Armenian site..

The […]

Armavia Plane Crashes

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Bad weather is slowing recovery of the bodies of 113 people killed when a plane flying from Armenia to southern Russia crashed into the Black Sea. - BBC NEWS

Another Impression of Armenia

Monday, April 10th, 2006

I saw this report fromon Groong Lonely Planet - It’s a pretty good picture of Armenia today.

For an unfair first impression of a country, try arriving at an
unrenovated Soviet airport in the middle of the night. Armenia’s
Zvartnots airport looked like a space station from the outside and
a disused factory on the inside. Mercifully, this […]

Of Mice and Men

Monday, February 6th, 2006

The following article appeared in The Washington Post today.

From Hosting Mice to People, With Help From Marriott

Monday, February 6, 2006; Page D02

In the cold, dark winter of 1993, checking into the Hotel Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, was an exercise in fortitude. The country had barely any fuel, and word was that mice, seeking a source […]