I skip WikiLeaks and go straight to the CIA World Fact Book to provide you with Background information on Georgia and Armenia. Background on GEORGIA
Dear Pam and Edmundo, In response to your entreaties for maps and photographs of our recent trip to Georgia and Armenia to be in one place, I am now broken of back and hard of seeing but you at least should be content with what follows.
I arrived in London from Armenia this afternoon after an excellent flight on BMI International. Eddy meets me at Heathrow and after a machine-banging performance at the parking machine that ate his five-pound note, he whisks me home to Montrose Court. On the way home, I mention the mysterious small black blood blister that looks …
Khor Virap Monastery, and Mount Ararat where Noah’s Ark was lodged on a ledge somewhere on the 5,165 metres high mountain ount Ararat is sacred, and the most important symbol for all Armenians. The very location of the capital, Yerevan, was chosen to provide an amphitheatre for the residents to view ‘him’ every day. …
Visits to two museums in Yerevan in the morning are quite captivating. I will write separately about the Matenadaran Manuscript Museum and the Historical Museum – particularly of the exhibits from the Early Bronze Age in the Historical Museum. After a lunch of local freshly-made salads (and another plate of that infernal, fattening ice cream),, …