Hey folks The shortest blog to date but hope you enjoy the latest photos I'm so glad I've spent the last decade or so uploading them they include the rest of Iran, Pakistan the Karakoram Highway and a day or so in India which is where I write this from now...temperatures have dropped from 50 degrees to about 48 but I could think of worse places to be! Booked my Everest trip today so next Thursday (21st) 6 of us have a 20 day break in the Himalayas off the truc...

Hey folks Just a quick entry (honest!) whilst I shelter from the 50 degree heat outside (yes TP shelter, even you would struggle!) we're curently in Islamabad and they are xperiencing a heatwave unlike the ones we have in June this is quite frankly ridiculous! I've had four showers today already and I know I'll get at least two more in before I retire... So the capital of Pakistan and it's too darn hot to do anything your clothes are saturated in minutes and as...

Karimabad - Friday, June 8th, 2007 Hi All So I think I last wrote to you from Iran the weeks are rolling by now not far short of two and a half months gone and already we're onto country number 12, Pakistan. After Esfehan in Iran we stopped at a couple more towns Yazd, Bam, and some ancient ruins at Persepolis all done under extreme temperatures even for me! Esfehan is regarded as one of the finest cities in the Islamic world and it was certainly the jew...

Hi All So I think I last wrote to you from Iran the weeks are rolling by now not far short of two and a half months gone and already we're onto country number 12, Pakistan. After Esfehan in Iran we stopped at a couple more towns Yazd, Bam, and some ancient ruins at Persepolis all done under extreme temperatures even for me! Esfehan is regarded as one of the finest cities in the Islamic world and it was certainly the jewel of ancient Perdsia compared to some of t...

So we made it, we're finally in Iran and no more Turkish keyboards!! I will mention a slight brush with death that we had after my last blog. We left the internet cafe in Doguybazit on the border of Iran and walked into a torrential storm, it had been raining whilst we were in the cafe but we thought nothing of it. Our campsite was in the foothills of the highest mountain in Turkey Mt. Ararat which accounts for what happened next. Six of us climbed into a taxi ye...