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Published: April 16th 2010
Street scene in Dogoubayazit
This gives just a reflection of street life in this far eastern town of Turkey close to the Iranian border.Friday 16 April
Today we have travelled over 300 miles to Yazd, a smaller city than we have been used to finding our way round in nevertheless, no-one told us that it was a historic town and where our hotel was. Before arriving here we did find the time to visit the world heritage site of Perpelese. Some pictures show you the site. So back to Yazd. We found ourselves parking up the car and walking to find the hotel through a maze of alley ways which were part of the old city and prison area. Eventually, after asking many passersby where the hotel was we found it and what a fine. It is beautiful - an oasis within which to cleanse ourselves and become human again after another hard day’s drive. I hope some of the pictures tell you more. Tomorrow we have less distance to cover so will not leave here until later in the morning after seeing a little of this place in the daylight. We are certainly subjects for discussion and the people here and elsewhere have clearly found our presence interesting and also a means .f asking questions about us, where we live, and what the
The Square in Esfahan, Iran
An early evening view of the 4th largest square in the world. It is magnificent. UK is like. The interest is very genuine whether it be a small boy asking the question or an old man. We will be negotiating some difficult roads over the next few days as well as going into Pakistan. So it is likely that I won’t be uploading any more blogs until getting to Lahore.
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