Every marz — its own weather, its own peaks, its own story.Weather in Armenia

On October 16 Armenia marks Press Day, a holiday of journalists and editors, heirs to a tradition that began with the first printed Armenian word more than four centuries ago.

On November 7 Armenia honours its librarians, keepers of the written word in a country where the manuscript was the chief national treasure for centuries.

Armenia's most homely, generous holiday: a table left set for days, gata and dried fruit, visits to relatives and long toasts at midnight.

The most homely and generous feast of the year: tables loaded to the edges, dried fruit and gata, kindly Kaghand Pap with his seven wishes instead of gifts, and lights that stay on in the windows until mid-January.