“We were being shaken up”: tourist wanted to turn to Minister (video)
Paul Nuttall from England is cleaning his motorbike before tomorrow’s travel. Yerevan is another stop for 19 tourists, who are heading from Great Britain to Far East. Not all of them are from England, simply London became the point, where the lovers of this type of travel had gathered. The oldest traveler is a 74-year-old Canadian; there are also bikers from the USA, France and Switzerland. The final spot will be different; one part of them will reach Beijing, another part- Tokyo. For Paul Nuttall and his wife travel will end in Kazakhstan. They have already spent half of their six weeks’ holiday. Travelers are not professional bikers. “Reaching from one point to another unites us. It is a hobby,” he says. On entering Armenia, Nuttall doubted firmness of his and his wife’s bike; will they overcome holes on the roads? “Do you have roads? It was terrible! We were being shaken up… We wanted to go directly to the Ministry of Transport… But, of course, I am joking, we didn’t go,” he says in reply to the question on roads. The impressions of a person being in Armenia for the first time are contradicting. He says that the poverty in the north of Armenia and the high prices in Yerevan do not correspond to each other. How is it possible? In two days they have managed to visit sightseeings in Yerevan and they hope to get acquainted with Armenia a little more before reaching the border. “But we weren’t able to understand which the real Armenia is and Armenian dishes. The center of Yerevan resembles Italy. Pizza, pasta, spaghetti…,” he explains. In order to reach the final point, travelers must go from Georgia to Azerbaijan. They hope that there [in Azerbaijan] they will not have problems for having been in Armenia. But in any case, as Paul Nuttall says half jokingly and half seriously, by the end of the travel, they will not clip the tag symbolizing Armenia on the bike.
