Yerevan, Armenia

On longer trips we try to schedule some down time, today was one of those days. The only thing we had planned was a visit to the History Museum of Armenia.

The museum wasn’t quite as good as we had hoped. They do have the world’s oldest shoe (circa 3500 BC) and attendants who insist you follow the museum in a very specific order. But the history abruptly ends after the 19th century, with just a brief panel about the genocide, and nothing about independence from Russia.

We had lunch at the bakery a few doors down from the hotel, it was okay. Bought the mini stone monastery from Vernissage market. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon rejigging our itinerary to skip the southeast part of Turkey. Instead we’ll fly out to Sofia and Belgrade before rejoining our original itinerary in Malta. The new destinations were based on cheap direct flights on Air Serbia. The replanning took the rest of the afternoon.

We had dinner at the hotel. They were hosting some sort of games night, like a trivia night. So we had to sit in the piano lounge overlooking the dining hall. The games night featured dramatic countdown music, which gave me a headache after a while.