A local had seen our website while we were tussling
with traffic yesterday and had been in touch with John by Instagram. He dropped by
this morning and chatted to us for an hour, until he was forced to
turn up at his office at Siemens. 
He recommended a place for lunch which we took his advice on and had a great traditional lunch in a
traditional feeling restaurant.
With a park in the old city were these neat signs Indicating toilets. And these cute hipo's at the fountain. 
Next we wondered around the old city
and had a look around the palace. We didn’t feel the need to have a
look at the display on torture pieces used in the inquisition. One of
the pieces in the palace museum which I had not seen before was a mustache keeper. It was worn in bed to keep ones mustache “shaped”.
While
in the crypt and trying to take a panorama a couple of school girls entered giggling, so I waited to finish then a guy with ladder and
security guard entered, then a whole group of kids came in and
accosted us practising their English, it was quite funny.
Finally
leaving the chaotic traffic we headed south back to the quiet,
peaceful existence. Very few places to camp and those available
just this dry cracked friable soil. A camp towards the Caspian, We
picked our way through the broken glass and pieces of wire to the
edge of the erosion.
Foiled again! Not so peaceful; a helicopter was flying a circuit passing overhead every 7 minutes!!. He was still going when we went to bed. We have a few mosquitoes and bugs or the first time in ages.
Foiled again! Not so peaceful; a helicopter was flying a circuit passing overhead every 7 minutes!!. He was still going when we went to bed. We have a few mosquitoes and bugs or the first time in ages.
A
lot of lights from all the oil platforms out in the Caspian