around the world with ipuenktchen

jippieeeeeeeh - the great day today - WE HAD OUR FIRST PC MEETING IN TABRIZ - and international for sure as we had our highlight OLDIEOMA with us!!!!!!

there had been the following participiants:

AT - OLDIEOMA
IR - ipuenktchen
IR - lili_6789
IR - misslondon

(and as a silent member yashila_81, who wrote a few messages and signed a few cards at home....
ANITA_2004, DIRTYFEET, SATELLOO had been absent..)

this was the location:



and from the traveltoys had been participated:

- FLAT STANLEY
- EMMA
- POSSY & CROSSY
- KISS ME

and here they are - proud & happy:



had you ever seen an islamic beer??



could you guess, how many cards they had written??





http://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=45365

there is a lottery and you can still join in - untill OOMA will be again in the air back to VIENNA!!!?!?



EDIT: and the next day ooma and ipue went to the main post office to get a special cancellation for most of the cards!!!!!! uuuuuuuuffffff - the man who has the stamp got soooooooo tired of sooooooooo many cards....... :-)))))))

on the road: sofyan


marand - main circle


marand - cemetary entrance (garden of paradise)


marand cemetary - martyr tombs


marand cemetary


at ipue's friend's - yummy watermelon


ohhh - what's this??


back home to tabriz


view from autobahn over tabriz


tabriz - the new bridge

just back home (ipue's home in tabriz) we'll show you here some impressions of our excellent trip.

we started the late afternoon at SAT 29th may by train from tabriz railway station, when POOR OLDIEOMA just in the very early morning arrived from VIENNA!!



first we had the train to tehran, arriving there around 8 AM on SUN 3oth may, having a great breakfast at ipue's son1's in western tehran.

the afternoon OOMA profited to admire again the NATIONAL JEWELLS in the treasure of the national bank of iran!

at 22.45 we started again from tehran railway station - another night in the train... arriving at esfahan's railway station at 6 AM on MON 31st may!





esfahan, what a beautiful city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

first we went to see the world heritage site *MEIDANE EMAM* entering the emam square passing there some hours because there are so many things worth to see!!!












a very beautiful place to relax the 5-star-hotel abbasi, a former carvansary, during the fifties bought by an insurance and changed into this great hotel!
www.hotelabbasi.com







and here some more beautiful sites allover the city!

armenian cathedral in new jolfa quarter


one of the ancient bridges: 33pol


pilgrimage site harounieh in the most ancient quarter of esfahan


dancing minarets, beloved place of newly weds in olden times


zoroastrian fire temple


zayanderud (river)


and last but not least - the one and only INTERNET..
*cafe mahtab* (moonshine) with OLDIEOMA!!



have you ever heard about the beautiful table clothes from esfahan???

first ipue brought us to see the design printing of the clothes, and next morning she brought us to the river to have a look at the hardest job of the table clothes washer!!!!!!! as well it was interesting, it was also sooooooooo hard......... poor guys........