Azadi Grand Hotel
Travel Blogs from Tehran
Just cut it off!!
24/8/2010
I decided to make an early morning run to Imam square, since our tour wasn't till 2pm;-) i was on a mission to find the best 'gaz', oooow that goowey nougat rectangular sweets filled with almonds and pistachio...Mmmm i love how it melts in your mouth without any effort at all ;D next on my list was Khurasan zarashk (dried berries …
Saying Goodbye Breaks My Heart!
... but thought the carpet was just too small for my house. I looked at it again and told Mr. Vafaei it was perfect, but my first instincts were right. The carpet was just too small for my house. Unfortunately, Mr. Vafaei did not have anything else in the size I wanted, but he promised to keep looking. In the mean time he showed me some smaller carpets for the entryway of my house, which I was also looking for. However, none of the carpets worked ...
So much wealth...
... number of oversized gems in all forms of jewellery, accessories and decorations was a bit overwhelming. After seeing the umpteenth golf ball size gem set in intricate gold and silver support you start to wonder if they could all be real. How many crowns, scabbards, necklaces, earrings, rings or brooches can one person wear. Add to all that a couple of jewel studded thrones, an 80cm diameter globe where the oceans were emeralds, the continents diamonds ...
Tehran
... and Iran who I tell I'm going there make a slicing finger motion across their neck! I get that this is just ignorance, that they know about as much about the people they fear as I do and that the people there are probably as wonderful as the people who are afraid of them. Still it creates doubt in me.
So I am very thankful to be biking it with Simon! I mean, how chances times does one get to cycle Central Asia with an Icelander? ...
Been Through The Desert On A Bike With No Name
... share. Drat!
The biking has been smooth. Beautiful actually. A few minor issues ...broken spoke, broken pannier rack bolt, which were easily fixed. And only one flat tire in all of Iran. None in Turkey!! I am very pleased with my $170 dollar mountain bike! It is so far very up to the very difficult task I am asking of it. I will be changing out the tires. I anticipate a fair bit of gravel roads from here on and the skinny front tire is not up to ...
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