Off to Tehran we go

We headed off to Tehran on the 11am bus, the bus was fairly empty on 3 of us, but we picked up a few more people along the way.

The bus ride again was quite quick, only 3 hours to Tehran. Once we got off the bus we made our way easily to the Metro, bought a ticket and one the train we got, 6 stops later we were out of the metro and walking to the hotel.

A few wrong turns due to the GPS taking a while to work itself out, but we made the short walk to our hotel easily and checked in.

Hotel Markazi is basic but has clean rooms, although no air conditioning which would not be an issue except our room faces the afternoon sun! Oh well, it's only 2 nights, we will survive.

We went out for a bit of a walk and then found a cute cafe with a nice outdoor balcony. Not long after ordering a massive thunderstorm struck and we had to move to another table to avoid being saturated!!

We enjoyed our tea and decided to head elsewhere for dinner to see if we could find some local food.

Well, this proved to be near impossible, we could buy anything else, but apart from fast food, there were no restaurants in sight! Or the ones we did find were closed!!

So we ended up eating at a little kebab type place that sold fresh baguettes with salad and cooked chicken, it was tasty but not really what we had in mind!

Alas, I think we have perhaps chosen a poor location for decent eating but we are close to the sights that we want to see and we only have 1 more full day. Tomorrow we might check out the cafe where we had our tea for dinner as it seemed okay, we were just hoping to get some more local food in before we leave, who knows what we will find tomorrow though.