Gostaresh Hotel Tabriz
Abrasan Crossroad Tabriz, Iran
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Our entry to Iran
... that at one point I felt rather motion sick, though I believe it was partly to do with trying to write a blog entry on my laptop as I got thrown from side to side in my seat. Despite the obvious sheer drop to our right hand side, our bus driver seemed to be determined to waste as much petrol as possible en route and swung round corners with enough force to pin me into my seat. For the first time in a while I made use of the seatbelt on a bus.
It was around ...
Traped with no money.
... want to withdraw money for us. Our cards are invalid in every ATM.
We had empty tanks, empty stomachs and hotels didn't want to accept any credit cards. But we left it for tomorrow. We took a room in pretty nice hotel with internet and breakfast and said, we sort the payment on check out.
Next day morning after breakfast, we went to the bigest bank in the city to check what the problem is and find out how we can get our money. Few hours later we realised we ...
Stuck in the middle with you!
... us some hassle, they checked my passport but were only interested in where we from, nothing else. They asked silly questions like what was in Marcin’s case and what was in fuel tank and then they left. We left too and headed back. We ate and contemplated our next move. We had until 2 to sort this out and armed with the knowledge that the central bank could help we decided to walk there. We were not in the best of moods, optimistic but slightly gloomy. We knew we were in trouble, ...
The other side
... was very important. Another guy joined us later on, a Kurd and the other was a Turk. They joked about one another being trouble but it was all very friendly, these men were grown up and were old enough to see the wisdom of getting along. Not everybody was and there was some real trouble the night before. We heard and saw some of it but they didn’t seem to like talking about it. Something happened outside, there was shouting and the old man went out. I followed him with ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Gostaresh


