Woke up and all the sand around was wet, but only from rain not the sea. Spent quite a while just pottering around on the beach and not actually doing much, Hugh went for a swim, but it’s pretty overcast so I can’t be bothered getting cold.
Most of today has been driving along busy roads between Nowshahr and Gonbad, very stop-start in the town centres so we’ve had to stop quite a few times for TB4 to cool down. It’s great fun though, everyone is extremely friendly, lots of bikes and cars have been pulling alongside us for a chat. At one petrol station the guy who owned it came out for a chat, he’d spent 14 years living in the states so spoke proper English. He paid for TB4’s fuel and gave us a free plastic jerry can.
We love Iran! Just got stopped by the police for speeding (Me and Hugh driving) but they let us off with a warning, then ended up just having a chat and letting us take photos with them. Now we’re just looking for a place to camp for the night, hopefully one without an irate farmer telling us we might be shot in our sleep
We’ve found a spot that’s reasonably flat to camp on, it’s a bit lumpy but will do. Hugh’s pitched his pop-up tent as a decoy incase anyone turns up to tell us to get lost.
AMAZING! The opposite to last night happened, a motorbike stopped to speak to us and ended up saying we should follow them for a place where it’s okay. We didn’t realize they meant their house!
We’ve been treated to as much tea as we could drink, a lovely dinner and excellent shower! Everyone is really friendly even though we can’t understand each other at all, we’ve been making conversation by passing round James’ Farsi phrasebook and a lot of hand-actions. There’s a hyper 7 year old girl running around like crazy, her reaction to seeing herself on a digital camera display was so funny I had to get the Polaroid printer out of the car for her, she absolutely loved it, and has stuck a photo of her and Hugh to their TV cabinet.
This family is huge and everyone is friendly, the guy on the bike, Mustafa, has 7 or 8 brothers, most of them are here, some with kids and his father and grandfather (we think) are also here! We’re all sleeping in the main room with little mattresses and blankets, we have been given pyjamas too! I am amazed at their hospitality and kindness, I doubt anyone in Britain would treat someone they’d seen camping in their field this way! It also seems bizarre to think that we only met Russ and Hugh 4 days ago and it seems like ages since we left the teams we met in Turkey. I’m genuinely having the time of my life, and absolutely loving Iran!
Most of today has been driving along busy roads between Nowshahr and Gonbad, very stop-start in the town centres so we’ve had to stop quite a few times for TB4 to cool down. It’s great fun though, everyone is extremely friendly, lots of bikes and cars have been pulling alongside us for a chat. At one petrol station the guy who owned it came out for a chat, he’d spent 14 years living in the states so spoke proper English. He paid for TB4’s fuel and gave us a free plastic jerry can.
We love Iran! Just got stopped by the police for speeding (Me and Hugh driving) but they let us off with a warning, then ended up just having a chat and letting us take photos with them. Now we’re just looking for a place to camp for the night, hopefully one without an irate farmer telling us we might be shot in our sleep
We’ve found a spot that’s reasonably flat to camp on, it’s a bit lumpy but will do. Hugh’s pitched his pop-up tent as a decoy incase anyone turns up to tell us to get lost.
AMAZING! The opposite to last night happened, a motorbike stopped to speak to us and ended up saying we should follow them for a place where it’s okay. We didn’t realize they meant their house!
We’ve been treated to as much tea as we could drink, a lovely dinner and excellent shower! Everyone is really friendly even though we can’t understand each other at all, we’ve been making conversation by passing round James’ Farsi phrasebook and a lot of hand-actions. There’s a hyper 7 year old girl running around like crazy, her reaction to seeing herself on a digital camera display was so funny I had to get the Polaroid printer out of the car for her, she absolutely loved it, and has stuck a photo of her and Hugh to their TV cabinet.
This family is huge and everyone is friendly, the guy on the bike, Mustafa, has 7 or 8 brothers, most of them are here, some with kids and his father and grandfather (we think) are also here! We’re all sleeping in the main room with little mattresses and blankets, we have been given pyjamas too! I am amazed at their hospitality and kindness, I doubt anyone in Britain would treat someone they’d seen camping in their field this way! It also seems bizarre to think that we only met Russ and Hugh 4 days ago and it seems like ages since we left the teams we met in Turkey. I’m genuinely having the time of my life, and absolutely loving Iran!
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