Archive for 'Tehran'
iran during ramadan and a diplomatic nuclear crisis - what a week!
Days 80-89: For something completely different, we visited Iran for ten days. (Links in this entry go to my other posts about Iran.)
Despite evident concern of friends and family that Iran would not be safe to visit, to the contrary we found that Iran was an easy place to travel and the people the most […]
Posted: October 7th, 2007 under Iran, Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz, Esfahan.
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nose jobs in iran: everybody’s getting one
I’d read about this phenomenon somewhere before we arrived in Tehran so it didn’t come as a surprise but Kate didn’t believe me until we’d seen the third or fourth person walk past with nose adorned with a delicate white post-surgical plaster.
It really is all the rage here. Pity the young woman (and even the […]
Posted: October 7th, 2007 under Iran, Photos, Tehran, Esfahan.
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flying in the name of god
Day 89: Kate boards the Iran Air Fokker 100. We took three such flights: Tehran to Yazd, Shiraz to Esfahan and Esfahan to Tehran, and flew in a Fokker 100 each time. Air travel in Iran is incredibly inexpensive by international standards. None of our flights set us back more than $30, and each replaced […]
Posted: October 3rd, 2007 under Iran, Flights, Bus, Photos, Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz, Esfahan.
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iran’s national glass and ceramics museum
Day 81: Iran’s glass and ceramics museum was located in a magnificent period estate house and, according to our thoughtful guide at the National Museum who recommended this place, boasts the best collection of glass outside of the United States, a very disarming concession to an enemy of the Islamic Republic.
During her life, mum was […]
Posted: September 29th, 2007 under Iran, Museums, Tehran.
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a remarkably well preserved fellow
Day 80: This gentleman, known as the Salt Man, lived 1700 hundred years ago and was discovered in 1993 in a salt mine in southern Iran. For someone his age, it’s remarkable how much hair he can still call his own. Salt Man was obviously quite a character as he sports an ear ring in […]
Posted: September 27th, 2007 under Iran, Tehran.
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