Un billet best of, avec des liens vers les meilleurs moments de ce blog depuis mars 2006

Pas ou peu de photos, vous les retrouverez dans la catégorie qui va bien.

Ne me méprenez pas, j’ai globalement ADORE mes 18 mois passés dans le Caucase, c’est juste que le français moyen aime bien râler

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KASA is involved in Nubarashen orphanage #11 since 10 years. Yes, this orphanage dedicated to mentally decifient kids is very close to the dump site.

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Just before going to Iran (the pictures are coming, I swear it :)), We went with Anahide to Nubarashen dump site, in the framework of her ecological researches for KASA NGO.

Unusual destination for a taxi driver

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Here am I, back in Paris.

View from my parents’ appartment

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Sorry for the lack of posts these days.
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Bye bye Armenia

I came back safely from Iran. Tons of photos and thoughts to blog about it. Please be patient
You’ll find a report from my swiss friend who traveled with me here with some of my pictures.
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I’m leaving Armenia on sunday night, so see you all in Yerevan one last time sunday evening at Shamrock Irish pub, Saryan street.

That’s all for the moment

So here am I.
I booked my flight ticket back to France (for good) on august 6th, 5h30. Nothing more to add for the moment, I’ll blog about my impressions about my last month in Caucasus in general later on july.

Briefly, I can’t say I’m happy to leave Armenia (there are people here I really love) but I’m conviced the main thing I need for now is change.
So here am I.

People in Yerevan, get ready for a huge farewell party beginning of august

Cruising under Caucasian skies
Tumanyan street/Yerevan/June 07/www.followtheway.info

I’ll be pretty much on the road the next few days/weeks.

• Tbilisi/Georgia from tomorrow until sunday evening (by train). I’ll try to get out of the city
• A whole tour in Iran from july 15th to july 30th. Let’s hope everything will remain calm until then.

Don’t expect too much blogging in the upcoming days, but lots of pictures later on

Just bought 1 week ago, the new Bambir (here and there) demo. 12 tracks of burning 70s rock n roll. A bit rough mixed (it is a demo, keep it in mind). Brilliant songs.

From "The Wild", as a raging overture, to the chilling "Lullaby for Pauper", not a single second to waste. And certainly not "Painted Minds"’ furious finish, revisiting Aram Khatchaturyan’s classic under the heavy influence of extravaganza youth.

The problem is, for addicts like me, that something is missing. Something sweating and noisy. And, "The New Generation" which is scary on stage just sound too much clean on CD.

But anyway. A great moment. For less thah 5 euros. I’m taking orders for the french/european people interested

And what could be better than (yet) another concert to celebrate the demo release? Live from Down Yerevan, for the 1st armenian edition of the french event "La fête de la musique". The Moscow cinema square was packed. Onnik blogged some other pictures.

Keep on rockin in a free world
Bambir / Fête de la musique / Yerevan / June 07 / www.followtheway.info

One of the biggest news these last few days is that “our” armenian football team beated Poland, 1.0, for Euro 2008 qualifiers.

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Let it rain a day, a week, a year, Let it rain a thousand years a day

Yerevan is becoming hotter everyday … May/june is OK, but July/august is pretty much suffocating

45°C and more are not a joke, but I should be fare away during this period (more about it soon).

The funny things about this weather are these short and so violent rains (a view from my appartment on Tumanyan street). 15 minutes, 3 centimeters of water, and gone

Let it rain a day, a week, a year
let it rain a thousand years a day
that the divine answer to all the shed tears
that the cyclic flood well known by those who know
One drop for every broken dream
and one for every conceived plan
Our seeds sown larger, our roots will go deeper
our trees will grow higher and now we wait the rain

Samael/Passage/Rain