Arriving to a cool and quiet Tehran at 05:00 in the morning I first had to play the ‘taxi?, taxi?, taxi?’ before I found my way to the house of my hosts. I dropped my things and started what turned out to be a long day of locating the embassy of Turkmenistan. The address on Google was wrong and turned out to be the Swiss embassy…
After locating it and applying for a transit visa early the following morning I spend the week exploring the city a bit (it’s massive, with 17 million inhabitants), tagging along with my host to English lessons (he’s English and studies Farsi) and meeting a lot of his expat and Iranian friends.





