Foreword

After a good 4 month’s travelling around and 23‘000 km driven, we now are back in Switzerland again. We have not sent any cards from Iran itself, as we did not really think they would arrive – the postal service is not known as being world class, anyway. And on a card there is much too less space to write about all the special, funny, beautiful things that we have seen or about all the nice, friendly and hospitable people we have met! So I send you a letter instead – written in Switzerland but about Iran, nevertheless. I hope that you will be able to read it and above all understand my English as I am not very used to non-business English writing anymore – and we, N and I both hope that you might accompany us a bit on this journey, as we have been accompanied by our parents thorough the last months!