Unfortunately we don’t have better footage than this. Trust us: traffic in Tehran is far more “inter­est­ing” than presen­ted here. It’s just really hard to get clips when it’s 35 degrees and you’re home­sick and hungry.

Last year I remem­ber think­ing, “Oh, my 27^th birth­day is on a Thursday. We’ll just have to cel­eb­rate the day after.” But, in Iran Thursday is like our Saturday. The weekend here is Thursday and Friday. So, it worked out per­fectly. I got to spend a “Saturday” night on the town, in Esfahan of all [...]

Hey all, Well, it’s our last few hours in Iran. We’re catch­ing a flight after dinner tonight to Bangkok via Bahrain. Iran has really grown on us, with the friend­li­est people we’ve met yet. We can now totally relate to celebrit­ies, who have to greet their fans every­where they go. No, our blog is not [...]

We both thor­oughly enjoyed Esfahan so we stayed for six days. We visited the sites and met many people along the way. In fact, out of all the places in Iran, Esfahan was the most approach­able. It was almost impossible for us to walk 100 feet without meeting someone. The mosques in Esfahan and in [...]

We decided to spend a day in a city called Yazd, after our thor­oughly enjoy­able 6 days in Esfahan. We’ll have some posts from Esfahan even­tu­ally, but right now it feels like a lot to digest. We made a good friend there, and had a few other inter­est­ing exper­i­ences. Yazd is nothing like any­where we’ve [...]