Tag Archives: Yerevan

The Long Road Back To Yerevan

By Tom | Published: July 13, 2010
Com­ing home meant two things: a very long jour­ney by pub­lic trans­port, and lug­ging an unwieldy col­lec­tion of funny-shaped bags and bits of metal through a vari­ety of cit­ies in the sum­mer heat. Choos­ing to travel exclus­ively by land meant that the excur­sion was really much more than just a bike ride in Mon­go­lia. It was [...]
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Rain, Train and Pain — Yerevan to Sochi

By Tom | Published: May 18, 2010
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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Staying Afloat Away From Home

By Tom | Published: April 26, 2010
I wrote recently about fund­ing a long-term bicycle exped­i­tion, and I men­tioned that it’s pos­sible to find work pretty much any­where if you have suit­able skills. I gradu­ated in 2005 with a degree in Com­puter Sci­ence, which morphed upon gradu­ation into occa­sional bedroom-bound work devel­op­ing web­sites for friends of friends. I didn’t make any money [...]
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Cycling The Middle East And North Africa — A Photography Exhibition in Yerevan

By Tom | Published: March 9, 2010
While I real­ise that a great deal of my read­ers won’t be in Yerevan this Fri­day the 12th of March, I feel that it’s import­ant to put the word out about my first ever pho­to­graphy exhib­i­tion — or any kind of exhib­i­tion, for that matter. Thanks to the Armenian Centre for Con­tem­por­ary Exper­i­mental Art, forty [...]
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The Brick Wall Of Eternal Dissatisfaction

By Tom | Published: March 4, 2010
It occurred over the fest­ive sea­son, when I had the pleas­ure of host­ing Fear­ghal and Simon in Yerevan for a very merry Christ­mas and New Year. Con­ver­sa­tion had turned to bicycle travel, as it had an annoy­ing habit of doing every few minutes. Fear­ghal and I were dis­cuss­ing motiv­a­tions for future bike trips. “It just wasn’t [...]
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