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Esfahan, Iran
Friday, Sep 23, 2005

Doing My Head In

David Murray
2007-02-23 21:59:20

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We jumped into a cab nice and early. Once at the bus station, we were given a nice shock when the Extremist charged us a lot less than is usual. We bought some tea and cakes, and this was cheap as well. This day was brilliant. It was 08:30, so we went looking for our bus, then we got told that daylight savings had finished and it was one hour earlier than expected. We could handle that. So we waited. After just over an hour, we found our bus, and dumped our bags under the bus. We jumped on. Our seats were directly behind the driver. He said something like fuck off from there Infidel. So I waved my ticket at him and ignored him. The Extremists were getting on, when an Exztremist woman said something and the bus boy said we had to move. We stayed. The bus started to drive off, and the bus boy tried to move me away from Lucy, to sit with another guy. We told him we were married and to fucking split some other Extremist couple up. He looked at our bus ticket, spoke to the driver and they kind of handled it, well in the way that every two minutes, he was looking in his mirror to see if we were still there !!!

Once in Esfahan, we jumped into a cab and made our way into town. We stopped at our first hotel. The guy looked like he was from an institution. He had no idea so we went to another hostel. Another special man came out. I said I wanted a double room. He held up four fingers. I held up two. He looked at me with a glazed look with four fingers. I counted Lucy, me, Lucy, me. He seemed to be in another world. So we walked out and headed for that fucking shithole that is Amir Kabir. Upon arrival, they were all excited to see us again. They even gave us our old room back. Shitgloves came up to shake hands !!! We ignored him !!! We loggd on and that was when it happened. Lucy had an email asking us to buy some carpets for her and her partner. No sizes, just a budget. We went off to see the man who had sold us our first two. We took a load of photos and tried to send them, but the internet here is shit, so it took a while

Next day, we logged on and there was a mail saying the sizes that they wanted. They liked one from the previous night, so off we went. As it was Friday, there was not much open. We had a look at one shop, but they were stuck up extremists. The next shop was cool. We took loads of photos and they bought us lunch. We moved onto a couple more and then tried to send them. After a couple of hours, our job was done.

On the third day, we opened the mail, and I was starting to get fucked off. They could not make up their minds. We went back to our man's sons shop and found that he had some nice pieces, and they were cheap. We took photos and said that these would be the babies we would buy. We sent an email, and after a couple of hours, they decided to go with what we had found. We went back and bought three pieces for them, and as our card was out and it was feeling itchy, we bought another two for ourselves !!!!! We celebrated at a lovely restaurant. A hard three days was over. We had our tickets and we were going to Yazd, finally !!!