Entries for April 2010

Getting lost in Yazd

So here I am in Yazd, an ancient desert city in Iran. I arrived a few days ago coming by bus from Esfahan, a magnificient modern city. The contrast is enormous, since the old town of Yazd mostly consists of sundried mud bricks. But I must confess that the ice...

April 13, 2010 | Comments (2) | Filed under Travel

Kebab Jihad in Iran

After arriving in Tehran a few days back I discovered that Facebook, Twitter and other fun sites are thoroughly blocked, just as suspected. So I had a coffee and took the next flight to Shiraz, the lovely city in the south of Iran, on a holy quest to find the...

April 06, 2010 | Comments (3) | Filed under Travel