We were ready to leave at 7 something but Nader had to realize that his tire was flat. We prepared for fixing as a car stopped and two men invited us for breakfast. They had the special Ashoura-soup in big buckets and said they would also help us fixing the tube. We knew that this offer was very kind, and we knew that it will cost us more time than just repairing the tube, so we had to decide and that was going with them. They put Nader’s bike and luggage and him in the car and I followed by bike to the home of one of them.
nice to see that play today and far from home, in Abhar
The men helped us with the tube and it was interesting to see difference in attitude and technique of bike repair.
We got from the Ashoura-soup, Halim/haleem, they had made last night in a village
outside and the host wanted to talk about emigration. Nader and I tried our best to explain all disadvantages, but I am not sure what of all that had been talked arrived them.
We left them after 9am,
one friend by car showing us the way back to the mainroad.
On the highway, we had not such good conditions like on the way to Abhar, but still most of the time it was only warm, not hot and sometimes the wind didn’t come from the front…
speckgürtel (german)=commuters belt in Iranian interpretation between Abhar and Qazvin
wind energy near Qazvin
When we after 6 hours arrived in Qazvin, again a car stopped and a man gave us Ashoura food – a nice thing as we were looking forward to lunch. So, two atheist guys got “holy food” two times on the last day of Ashoura ?
