John watched this guy bring his "boat" down to the Caspian and precede to paddle out fishing!!
John boiled 20 quail eggs for our lunches and fried up a few for breakfast. Because of
the wind last night and the fact we had everything open we now have a
layer of sand throughout.
Leaving the beach we stopped in at our new
friends place to say goodbye, we refused lunch but had a piece of
watermelon. No fasting for Fatima as she was menstruating. Her
brother and father do not fast.
Mahdi
needed some attention to his car so we followed him into Sari, I
think really he just wanted to be helpful. He seemed sad when we
parted company.
We
drove east again on the main very busy, very hectic, road. Then we
turned off into the mountains and a orange then white road.
We
do really prefer these rough slow quiet roads to the main ones.
We
just stopped on the side of the road in the shade for a quick bite of
late lunch. A
school teacher and his wife stopped and asked us back to their home
for dinner. He did not seem interested in the vehicle or our
travels, we were a little confused… We refused. Another vehicle
then stopped just as we were packing up and invited us back to their
place. At least this guy was going in the same direction. They were
an older couple and turned off the mainroad.. looking interesing then
they turned up a hill to some houses. They had a second house here
with great views. Their little house was made from glass – he is a
glazier- and has a large newish orchard. We had tea he was not
fasting but his wife was.
We
declined the invitation for dinner and the night and continued on our
way.
A
small stint on orange then off on white. Met some farmers who stopped
us and they said road blocked. John opened the map and asked them some
town names and yes all good that way. Also mentioned road narrow and
it will rain and be slippery tonight so don't camp till top of
mountain. All good.
The
road did have a lot of rain damage and there were narrow sections
where the side had slipped down the hill.
I
was driving and halfway around a slow corner my right hand wheel
dropped in a little hole with a clunk. The noise did not go away.
John checked and yes a broken leaf spring.
We
then drove very gently on and up camping at almost the very top of
the mountain at 2370m altitude, in the dark again.
208km
For dinner we had this goose egg given to us by Fatima.
So today we had three different eggs!
