IRAN | Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008 | Views [1012]
Saw so much today. At the Imam Mosque a man is standing singing in an empty room. His friend asked if I understood what he was singing about. I said yes, everyone understands beauty. I did not photograph him. Sometimes you don't. 2 small Afghani refugee ... Read more >
IRAN | Wednesday, 15 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
sheer loveliness
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IRAN | Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008 | Views [1234]
The bus is amazing - actually a Volvo coach with snacks and a movie and reclining seats.At 1.30 am we stop at truck stop for tea. How cool is this? I am chased by chai man for 500 rials as forgotten to pay. At one point we pass a motorway sign that seems ... Read more >
IRAN | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
finally.....
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TURKEY | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
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IRAN | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Views [1062]
3 mosquito bites and counting. Dial up internet is dreadfully slow but fried eggs for breakfast make up for a lot. Martyn just left to take the metro from Imam Khomeini Square. Most savvy in forn parts is Martyn. I shall miss him. Laundry ready 11.... Read more >
IRAN | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
running very late - it's OK.
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IRAN | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Views [555]
I lost my scarf on the train so come down for brakfast wearing my little travel towel on my head. Better look an idiot than be shot. So it's off to the Grand Bazaar for headscarf. Gods, it's hot! Tehran has insane traffic and locals just step off the ... Read more >
Tags: bazaar, kurdistan, traffic
IRAN | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Views [397]
day 1 of 12 Iran visa. Off ferry and onto next train. 4pm we killed someone! An old man sat on the track and committed suicide by train. Not uncommon, they say. We are delayed by only half an hour which is really sad. In Tabriz I change money and ... Read more >
TURKEY | Sunday, 12 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
The party on wheels
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TURKEY | Friday, 10 Oct 2008 | Views [739]
I awoke in the Bible. In Beyhan dry baked station somewhere. It is a long day but the landscape is getting greener -the persistence of life is something else. Last night Nigel, jeanne and Stuart were the last to leave the party and were landed with ... Read more >
Tags: delays, lake van
TURKEY | Thursday, 9 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
sob, sob
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TURKEY | Thursday, 9 Oct 2008 | Views [1029]
The landscape thru Turkey is like the moon and strangely satisfying after the chaos of Istanbul. A few cows, one shepherd with his flok at the water's edge, one tiny army base, then colourless land mile after mile. I am drinking coffee in the restaurant ... Read more >
TURKEY | Thursday, 9 Oct 2008 | Views [1043]
I will miss: Yoghurt and fruit, turkish coffee and black kitten at the Waterpipe cafe. Mosques singing to each other at dusk. The changing enchanting population at the Big Apple hostel in Sultanahmet. Nipping across the Bosphorous on an errand. Walking ... Read more >
Tags: trans-asia express
TURKEY | Wednesday, 8 Oct 2008 | Views [951]
'We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars' Oscar Wilde Or, in the case of Jon and me last night in Istanbul, sitting in the road on little red plastic stools in good Turkish company watching a cartman make kebab. Then eating ... Read more >
Tags: food, the point of travel
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