Iran

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 … Continue reading »

Good run all the way into Tehran  350 mile approx. Found camp site Camping-Gol-E-Sarah easy enough.  100 rial per night for 3 people Tent and LD. Nothing of interest from Tabriz scenery very flat and boring bit of a dust storm blowing up on way into Tehran. Found out its impossible to get into India without a Carnet du Passage. Can probably … Continue reading »

Electrical short on battery melted battery lead. Leaving Tehran we developed a wheel wobble, had to move the roof rack to the front of LD, it cured the wobble. Covered 200 miles to the Caspian sea through Sari, and barren Mountains, holes in side of mountains turned out to be coal mines, all along the length of the road … Continue reading »

All the lush green country as gone now and were back in arid semi desert. The road has changed into a potholed dirt track for 200 miles. A to B is a new road  in the process of being built but its taken 10 years up to now. LD has developed a bad wheel wobble, have … Continue reading »

Finished with dirt road at last, 250 miles of it then a good road into Mashed. stopped just west of town. Changed water in radiator, very rusty looking tightened up manifold bolts. Lee and Pat travelling in a 1959 Peugeot and not a bit of trouble with it. Kids hanging around every time we stop … Continue reading »