Our accommodation in Tabriz

We could not leave the car outside this hotel so the receptionist who had done a degree in modern english literature accompanied John to a car park for the safe keeping overnight. John's sense of direction is not the best as he admits and the following morning we thought the car was 'lost'! Fortunately he remembered he had been given a receipt for parking which enabled a passer by to give directions to the car park. Phew, back on track.

Dogoubayazit and Mt Ararat and on to Tehran in Iran

April 12th 2010
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 certa ... read more

Middle East » Iran

Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and the shah was forced into exile. Conservative clerical forces established a theocratic system of government with ultimate political author... ... read more

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