Apologies avid or anxious blog readers. I've been in the wilderness. But the anticipation is over: I am in Shiraz. Shiraz is a city of 1.75 million people, and according to the scrolling headlines on the news (in english, everything else was farsi):
USA resists change...........President Ahmadenijad visits Shiraz..........Ahmadenijad: Shiraz is Iran's centre of Ancient Culture........
The one about USA never came back around, so I didn't find out what change they are resisting. El Presidente was referring to Persepolis, the ruins of the ancient capital of the Persian Empire that spanned from Ethiopia to the Indus Valley in the centuries before 330BC, when it was sacked by Alexander the Great. These ruins are Iran's biggest tourist drawcard. But there's plenty of time for all that. First, there's seven hundred kilometres of no Lonely Planet entries and less english than I speak farsi, to be described.
And as for the internet connectivity: Lar, a 'city' with a supposedly international airport had an internet cafe, but I was there on Friday. Jahrom, a city with a population of more than 100 000 people had an internet cafe consisting of five computers on one dialup connection. In 45 minutes I couldn't open gmail, so I gave up to do something more productive - sleep in air conditioning. Apparently data was moving through the network, but without being a geologist I can't adequately describe it's speed.
So, back to the beginning:
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