Tag Archives: Romance

Getting Married And Quitting Facebook

By Tom | Published: October 9, 2009
On Sat­urday the 19th of Septem­ber Tenny and I were mar­ried in a small wed­ding cere­mony in Yerevan. We had made a sur­prise arrival at the church on Armenia’s one and only cycle rick­shaw with an entour­age of bicycle act­iv­ists lead­ing and fol­low­ing us through the main streets of the city. After the cere­mony we [...]
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The End Of One Journey And The Start Of Another

By Tom | Published: June 18, 2009
Today marks the second anniversary of my depar­ture from my fam­ily home in Eng­land, and my twenty-sixth birthday. “None of us have any exper­i­ence of cycle tour­ing before, so this is really going to test our men­tal and phys­ical endur­ance”, I wrote on this blog on the morn­ing of depar­ture, and a couple of hours [...]
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My New Year’s Resolutions

By Tom | Published: January 4, 2009
To ride my planned route with renewed pur­pose and enthu­si­asm, using the know­ledge that Tenny, my girl­friend, is await­ing my return to guide me when the going gets tough. To return to Iran with less doubt, more exper­i­ence, and a fresh out­look on the world and my future, friends and family. To live every day like [...]
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All Change

By Tom | Published: April 7, 2008
It’s spring again (in Armenia, at least — still snow­ing in Eng­land, I’ve heard)! The last of the ice melted away a couple of weeks ago, and all over the coun­try grass and leaves are emer­ging from flower-beds and trees. Winter is finally behind me. Sit­ting in my standard-issue former-Soviet-Union flat, com­plete with reg­u­lar water [...]
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Leaving Yerevan. And Then Returning

By Tom | Published: March 4, 2008
Believe it or not, I finally left Yerevan on my bicycle on Sunday 2nd March 2008. I ped­alled south for 70km, through the Ararat region, and camped in a field after dark oppos­ite the fact­ory of a com­pany called ‘Abit Ltd’, which amused me slightly. At 7am the fol­low­ing morn­ing I was on the road [...]
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