YES, we are back. Won't you join us?
One of the reasons I decided to move to Armenia was all the fantastic stories told on this blog. I read Alex Sardar, Raffi Kojian, Madlene Minassian and all the others with great interest. Now, I hope...
View ArticleWhat about schools?
Yesterday I went to the parents meeting for Amassia. Their school is just so great. The teacher explained what they have been up to since the beginning of the year. The Waldorf school works on epochs...
View ArticleFrench Everywhere
Over the past few months there seems to have been a French invasion of our city (feel, let’s not overdue it, the real invasion is done by the Iranians). Everywhere I turned there was a group of people...
View ArticleBurger drives Diaspora mini-economy
Last week a new burger/sandwich/pub opened in Yerevan named ‘The Factory’. It is owned by Diasporan partners, from I believe two different countries and is right next door to Yerevan’s first youth...
View ArticleThere is more to Armenia than Yerevan
For the past year, I had been literally stuck to my work and for that reason, I had spent most of my time in Yerevan until May of this year when my agency, Deem Communications, was tasked to organize a...
View ArticleWhat I Had Missed
During my recent Paris trip, I had the pleasure of taking in 3 films. For some reason, they were all about social issues haunting humanity. The first film was a Hollywood production of Contagion. An...
View ArticleArmenia-EU free trade pact
This has been in the works a while, and will be a really big deal. An economic union and free trade pact between Armenia and the European Union. That’s 500 million customers for Armenian products. It...
View ArticleJanapar Trail in Karabakh ready for more hikers!
I spent some quality time in the Republic of Mountainous Karabakh this year, hiking on the Janapar Trail and along with the help of others, we whipped the trail markers back into shape. The trail is...
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