Oregon Live
Nov 22 2009

The Armenian Drummer

By Chris Guillebeau, Special to The Oregoni…
November 22, 2009, 6:14AM

The restaurant was nearly empty. I arrived in Yerevan, Armenia from
Tbilisi, Georgia in the late afternoon, coming in on a marshrutka, a
Russian-style mini-bus. Six hours was enough time to think about
eating, and now I was ready to eat.

I stumbled into a Lebanese restaurant a few blocks from the bus
station. At 4pm, it was just me, two other diners, a small group of
Armenian chainsmokers, the wait staff, and this drummer. Here’s how it
went down:

2009/11/the_armenian_drummer.html

Chris Guillebeau is a writer and entrepreneur with the goal of
visiting every country in the world. He lives in Portland and
publishes the blog The Art of Non-Conformity. Follow his adventures at
twitter.com/chrisguillebeau.