I've got my third visa of Iran for another 30 days. It went very easily, took only ten minutes or so to apply. I only needed to wait till next day since it was the my second time of extention.
Actually I don't need so many days this time. But the charge was the same anyway. They gave me 30 days automatically.
The weather has changed apparently after Persepolice. It's much warmer now. The sunshine is the one of early spring for me. I hope my winter days are over.
I met a French cyclist again whom I met in Samarkand in Uzbekistan. He was in Afghanistan for a month! because he couldn't get permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enter Iran (He happened to have visa of Afghanistan that he took in Chologue in Tajikistan). He left Uzbekistan a week earlier than I did, and I'd been so slow in Iran. I didn't expect to see him again. OK, it was in an internet cafe. But there were some more in the city. Such coincidence still happens. I wish I could calculate the probability.
I wanted to leave Shiraz this afternoon. But I forgot my helmet in an exchange shop. While I was chatting with local people outside the shop, it was closed for lunch break, till 4 o'clock in the evening.
Well, never mind. Tomorrow.
29 Jan 2009, Shraz, Iran
