Wrote home M, L,
What a performance today to cross the frontier, lost 2 hours off our time to start with. Up at 7 am then suddenly it was 10am. Through the Turkish boarder about 10 then another hour filling in forms for Iran. Through at last. Good roads on through Tabriz. Stopped for the night about half way to Tehran. Difficult in petrol stations numerals in Arabic and everyone trying to con us. 183 rials to the pound, changed £5 insured 3rd party, 300 rials 100 rials transit fee. Houses much the same as Morocco. Plenty of Camels about. It seems much more prosperous than Turkey. The land is volcanic with hot springs about. Diesel 1/2 a gallon cheapest yet. View of Mount Ararat at border.
(Chopped Pork Cabbage potato)