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Rain, Train and Pain — Yerevan to Sochi

Her famil­iar, tear­ful, smil­ing face was framed by the tin­ted win­dow, then a sil­hou­ette, reced­ing; finally she joined the flecked shapes sway­ing within the depart­ing bus as it began its 24-hour jour­ney to Tehran. I put my hands in my pock­ets and trudged towards the sub­way. For the next few days I would put loneli­ness [...]
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White Peaks and Red Tape

We knew that as we headed out of Europe and into the Middle East and Cent­ral Asia, we’d be cut­ting through as much red tape as we would snow and ice. So maybe it was a good idea that we’d expec­ted it, as inter­na­tional bur­eau­cracy is becom­ing a big­ger pain in the pro­ver­bial than a [...]
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