Yazd, Iran

  From Persepolis we head onwards to Yazd…   We stop for tea next to a 4,000 year old Bodhi Tree We arrive in Yazd 5 hours later.   Yazd is a remote city in the middle of Iran, relatively untouched by wars of history past and unaffected by the...

Landed in Shiraz

  Just letting the world know that we just landed in Shiraz, where the weather is warmer and the city more relaxed. Our guesthouse, Niayesh, is absolutely charming.  Just dropped off our bags and about to begin a walking tour of the city. Bunch of lose...

Layovers before Tehran

Well someone has their priorities straightened out: This wasn’t on the packing list She better get all that done so I can have the satisfaction of dumping all her schoolwork in Iran. My free access to British Airways lounge: Everything ‘backpacking’ shouldn’t be All...