Unlike us, Iranians don’t rise early! I decided that I was going to stay in town this morning until I could change money and make my purchase before setting off to ride today’s stage. Fari has located a money exchange…
Round in circles (stage 94)
It did indeed get pretty chilly overnight – it was 8ºC when I set off this morning just before sunrise – a sign of things to come I suspect. Out on the road and it was still a bit gloomy…
A ho-hum kinda day (stage 93)
We got off to an earlier start than I thought necessary with a hotel breakfast at 0630 and in theory a bus departure at 0700. We finally left at 0745 which made getting up at 0600 seem even more pointless!…
Teaming Tehran (rest day two)
Look what I found in the hotel desk draw – to be expected I guess 🙂 Sleeping, breakfast and then bike maintenance to start the day – nothing major I just needed to give the drive train of my bike…
Sprawling Tehran (rest day one)
A bit of a stuffy night despite having the aircon on, and in spite of wanting to sleep in I was awake and hungry by 0730. The hotel breakfast was as good as everything else about the place – other…
Tehran here we come (stage 92)
It got pretty cool in the night beside the river – so much so that I actually had to get in my sleeping bag for the first time since the Pamir Highway! Having not put my tent up the morning routine…
And back again (stage 91)
We’ve spent the last four days criss-crossing back and forth over the range of hills which separates the inland valleys from the Caspian Sea and today was no exception, though by the end of the day we’ve come far enough…
Up, up and up some more (stage 90)
The rain and thunder continued off and on through the night, but so did the wind which meant that at packing up time things were actually pretty dry which makes the whole process much easier. From camp we had to backtrack…
Windy as **** (stage 89)
Today we’ve had every sort of wind imaginable; head, tail, howling, gusty, side, gusty-side, and far too much gusty-howling-head! It blew pretty much all through the night and although there was lots of thunder and lightening only a sprinkle of…
Not really feeling the cycling love (stage 88)
Sadly last night’s sleep was somewhat interrupted by power issues in the hotel which meant that the air-conditioning kept turning on and off as the power came and went, and for a while it also got pretty hot in our…