A week end of adventures!

As the Peace Corps, say, Yerevan is not Armenia. You want to see Armenia? Get out there and go to the villages, visit people's homes and see how they live. It's so enriching, fun, and touching. The people we meet are open and generous, they are curious about foreigners and ready to open their homes and share more than a meal with us.

We were lucky enough to find a car which was going to Martuni (our destination) right at the exit of Yerevan, a nice first local hitchhiking experience! The man and his sons invited us to their home, where we met the grandparents and brother in law, and shared great food, music, and dancing in the middle of the afternoon. They were sweet and so warm (ok.. like usually a bit too much! We said we don't want to marry in Martuni!). They wouldn't let us go, they wanted us to stay for the night, but as we had made other plans we eventually managed to escape ;)