The internet has been virtually useless during the day and night, I have almost been limited to early morning usage. The lines are just very crowded and slow during the day, so that you can't even view a single page on the web, or download a few e-mails. I am not sure when/how this will get better, but maybe my provider will get a wider connection.
Anyways, yesterday we went out into the countryside to do see more ancient churches. We visited Ddmashen, a huge 7th century church, and Makravank (not to be confused with the two Makaravanks). They were both quite nice, and virtually never visited sites. Yesterday was a very nice day to travel. The muddy conditions however, did prevent us from reaching a last church we were hoping to see. It was my first trip out of town this year and I took my new GPS with me. I can now start to keep a table of exact latitude/longitude and elevations of all these churches and monasteries so that in the future anyone with a GPS (which now is already down to $80 in price and can even be found incorporated into a watch) will have no trouble at all finding these sites, whether they are driving or trekking. By the end of the day we of course got stopped by a policeman who let us off with just taking his picture. He tried pretty hard to get a bribe, but when it was apparent he was not going to get it, he decided a picture would have to do. I have heard they will even use your cell phone to make long distance calls as an alternative to a bribe. I would never have even taken his picture if it wasn't a digital camera...
Meanwhile I got lots of e-mails about my Arto post, he is already quite popular with many of you apparently. Meneshian was able to give me a great summary of where to get Arto's older albums online... so here goes.
Anyways, yesterday we went out into the countryside to do see more ancient churches. We visited Ddmashen, a huge 7th century church, and Makravank (not to be confused with the two Makaravanks). They were both quite nice, and virtually never visited sites. Yesterday was a very nice day to travel. The muddy conditions however, did prevent us from reaching a last church we were hoping to see. It was my first trip out of town this year and I took my new GPS with me. I can now start to keep a table of exact latitude/longitude and elevations of all these churches and monasteries so that in the future anyone with a GPS (which now is already down to $80 in price and can even be found incorporated into a watch) will have no trouble at all finding these sites, whether they are driving or trekking. By the end of the day we of course got stopped by a policeman who let us off with just taking his picture. He tried pretty hard to get a bribe, but when it was apparent he was not going to get it, he decided a picture would have to do. I have heard they will even use your cell phone to make long distance calls as an alternative to a bribe. I would never have even taken his picture if it wasn't a digital camera...
Meanwhile I got lots of e-mails about my Arto post, he is already quite popular with many of you apparently. Meneshian was able to give me a great summary of where to get Arto's older albums online... so here goes.
- His work with Night Ark (RCA Novus Sessions) can be found at Traditional Crossroads www.traditionalcrossroads.com
- His work with Night Ark on Universal can be found on amazon.com (Petals on your path, however, is tough to find as it was never released in the U.S., only in Europe and Canada)
- His work with Ara Dinkjian only, including CD's called Onno and Tears of Dignity, is only released in Greece and can be found at the www.etnomusic.com out of Barcelona, Spain
- His Navy band stuff can be found at www.narek.com and www.etnomusic.com
- His Paul Winter stuff, you've already found.
- His Al Dimeola Sessions can be found at www.amazon.com
- His Elefteria Arvanitaki stuff can be found at any Record Store...
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