Settled into a small flat in Tumanian Street downtown Yerevan - just a short walk to the swanky cafes around the Opera, chic Northern Avenue and Republican Square, the heart of the city. The entrance to the block of flats is typical of the stylish Soviet Art Deco buildings of the 1930s constructed from the distinctive pink stone.
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| Tumanian Street looking towards Opera |
The flat is generally modern and comfortable, the furniture though is something else. This heavy, overly ornate furniture is very popular here and is an odd combination of the very tradition furniture common in the Middle East and Eastern European furniture twenty years ago. Curiously enough it seems to suit the place and while I am certainly not incline to drag the stuff back to New Zealand, I quite like it here. And it is more comfortable than it looks.
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