Day 133 (Iran): Mashhad II (back to the shrine)

by markus

It was bike maintenance day. I had to take care of the bike again. Changed the brake pads and adjusted some other things, but it was nothing major. All is well with the bike and all the screws that I was concerned about are holding up nicely.

I strolled around town for the afternoon, just taking in the city.

Went back to the shrine for the evening prayer, which I had heard was quite an impressive sight. It was. Tens of thousands of people, separated between the sexes of course were praying. It was an interesting place to be.

Finally, a friend of Reza’s wanted to meet up with me as she had heard that a German-speaking cyclist was in town. We had interesting conversations over dinner with a friend, half German, half English.

And in good fashion and timely given the release of the Batman movie, Reza’s son showed up as … Batman.