Friday 9 April Since writing to you from the relative calm atmosphere of Amasya and the delightful pension we were staying in, we are now poised to enter Iran, 35 kilometres away. We have come a long way in one day to reach and spend one night in Erzurem, after a long and bumpy ride along these roads in Eastern Turkey that make life interesting for all motorists. After asking the way to a certain hotel in the centre of Erzurem and causing a fracas between students, a policeman and other passersby trying to be helpful, we did eventually find somewhere to rest weary heads. The chosen hotel in Erzurem, the Hitit Hotel, was comfortable, cheap and the people were most kind in their assurances that the car, parked right in front of the hotel, would
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