In June 1991, my mates Heiko Schnell and Ben and Sharon Timmerman and I drove from Aleppo, Syria to the NE corner of Turkey where it borders Armenia and Iran. Our destination was Mt Ararat.

We didn’t find the ark but found this carpet/kilim/soumak vendor along some quiet road with a view to Ararat. I had a hard time passing carpet vendors in those days. I don’t believe we bought anything from this gentleman partly because we had just bought carpets the day before and I already had a soumak very similar to the one he is showing. But there really wasn’t any traffic on the road and we all enjoyed a chance to chat and have some tea.