It is 1:30am now and the weather is just perfect... I could walk around outside in shorts and sandals in perfect comfort. Too bad Lake Sevan is a whole 45 minutes drive away.

Before last summer, local men would never wear shorts... that was something only boys would do. But during the unprecedented heat wave last August, more and more men chucked tradition and started wearing "shortiks" around. Once this barrier was broken it became acceptable, and this year already you see young and middle aged men walking around in shorts. True, it is far from everyone, but in this climate it is just a matter of time before it spreads to the majority, and outside of Yerevan.