Monthly Archives: September 2008

East Azarbaijan, or north-west Iran

The pro­spect of cross­ing the Armenian-Iranian bor­der was some­thing over which we’d spent many weeks fretting. Tenny had been nervous about the idea of cyc­ling in Iran – her home coun­try – ever since we’d first enter­tained the pos­sib­il­ity many months ago. For me, Iran was the most obvi­ous and enti­cing suc­cessor to Armenia, rather [...]
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On the second day in Iran we were taken hostage.
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